Survey Data
Reg No
50130120
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Artistic, Social, Technical
Original Use
Post box
In Use As
Post box
Date
1920 - 1940
Coordinates
316179, 238759
Date Recorded
12/06/2018
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding round-plan cast-iron pillar postbox, installed c. 1930, with plinth base, raised insignia 'P&T' to front (south) face, moulded neck, dentillated frieze and domed cap, and maker's mark 'Carron Company Stirlingshire' to base at rear. Located on north side of Collins Avenue.
Appraisal
An attractive and functional piece of street furniture representative of the high quality of mass-produced cast-ironwork of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The insignia, representing the national postal service, dates the box to the early years of the Irish Republic, and is commensurate with a period of suburban expansion in north Dublin in the first half of the twentieth century. The Carron Company in Scotland were one of the largest ironworks throughout the industrial revolution and were famous for their postboxes and phone boxes situated throughout Ireland and Britain.