Survey Data
Reg No
41303026
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Artistic, Social, Technical
Original Use
Post box
In Use As
Post box
Date
1850 - 1900
Coordinates
267557, 334481
Date Recorded
04/10/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Wall-mounted cast-iron post box with hinged door, installed c.1875, with banded margin surround, projecting letter slot with raised 'POST OFFICE' insignia, VR royal cipher to upper portion, 'Eagle Range & Foundry, Bernard P. Walker & Co' foundry stamp to bottom portion. Set into random rubble boundary wall at roadside at north edge of Monaghan Town.
Appraisal
This letter box is an attractive item of street furniture that represents nineteenth-century mass-produced cast-iron ware. The royal cipher and banded margins enhance this utilitarian object but also recall a time when Ireland formed part of the British Empire. Despite some damage to the upper section of the box, it is a small but excellently designed example of high-quality mass-produced cast-iron.