Balrath Post Office, County Meath

What is recorded here

Balrath Post Office has carved pinnacles and a pointed doorway, with a matching Gothic police station nearby. It’s a grand little kingdom: one building weighs your parcel, the other takes an interest in why it’s ticking.

Detached three-bay single-storey post office, built c.1840, with gabled porch. Pitched artificial slate roof with carved pinnacles and rendered chimneystack. Dressed limestone walls with ashlar quoins and plaque. Tooled limestone dressings to window openings. Pointed arch door opening with hood moulding above to porch. Entrance to west gable now in use as window. Extension to the rear. Cast-iron railings set on limestone plinths, with dressed limestone gates piers and cast-iron double gates.

This building forms a interesting group with the former police station to the south, which was built at the same time and in a similar Tudor Gothic style. The architectural form of this post office is enhanced by the masonry details, such as the quoins and dressings to the openings. The carved pinnacles add artistic interest.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14403205

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