Survey Data
Reg No
20913616
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Artistic, Social, Technical
Original Use
Telephone box
In Use As
Telephone box
Date
1940 - 1960
Coordinates
149626, 38742
Date Recorded
13/08/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding telephone box, installed c.1950. Painted pre-cast concrete roof and walls with fixed multiple-pane windows to side (north, south) elevations. Replacement glazed timber door to front.
Appraisal
This fine telephone box is an increasingly rare example of a mid twentieth-century telephone box. Such items of street furniture were once common throughout Ireland and performed an important social function prior to the wide spread availability of domestic phone lines.