Survey Data
Reg No
22502678
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Post box
In Use As
Post box
Date
1930 - 1940
Coordinates
260278, 112411
Date Recorded
01/07/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c.1935, with raised 'P&T' insignia in Gaelic script. Set into painted rendered, ruled and lined wall.
Appraisal
This cast-iron post box, which is still in use, is an attractive item of street furniture and represents an early surviving artifact of mass-produced cast ironwork. The raised detailing is of artistic interest, the Gaelic script representing the continued promotion of a national identity within the emergent independent state.