Survey Data
Reg No
50130159
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Artistic, Social, Technical
Original Use
Post box
In Use As
Post box
Date
1920 - 1940
Coordinates
315586, 236979
Date Recorded
05/06/2018
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding round-plan cast-iron pillar postbox, installed c. 1940, having plinth base, raised insignia of 'P&T' to front (northeast), moulded neck, dentillated frieze and domed cap. Partly obscured maker's mark to rear of base with raised lettering 'St. John's Works'. Located at north side of Botanic Avenue.
Appraisal
An attractive and functional piece of street furniture representative of the high quality of mass-produced cast-ironwork of the early twentieth century. 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. While the maker’s mark is obscured, it is likely to be St. John's Ironworks, Enniscorthy, which produced many similarly styled and detailed postboxes in the 1920s-30s.