Survey Data
Reg No
50030295
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Social, Technical
Original Use
Milestone/milepost
In Use As
Milestone/milepost
Date
1820 - 1830
Coordinates
319658, 237171
Date Recorded
29/10/2014
Date Updated
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Description
Dressed granite milestone, erected c. 1825, having chamfered sides. One of series to footpath along north side of Howth Road. Inset cast-iron plate reading 'P.O/Dublin 3/Howth 6'. Benchmark visible to south-west face.
Appraisal
This milestone makes an attractive, if subtle, impression on the Howth Road. It is both technically interesting and visually appealing. It is of contextual interest as a reminder of nineteenth-century civic organisation, being one of a series which marked the distance between the G.P.O. in Dublin city centre and the port and mail station at Howth. Thomas Telford was contracted in the early nineteenth century to improve the Howth Road so as to ensure the speedy delivery of mail, and these milestones were put in place as part of an early signage scheme on the road.