What is recorded here
Dressed granite milestone, erected c. 1825, having chamfered sides. One of series on footpath along north side of Howth Road. Inset cast-iron plate reading 'P.O/Dublin/5/Howth/4'.
This milestone makes an attractive, if subtle, impression on the roadside. It is a reminder of nineteenth-century civic organisation, as 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 to ensure the speedy delivery of mail.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 50030007
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Photo credits
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Lucarelli, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- UtDicitur, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Raymond Okonski, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Susan Pike, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Hugh Frazer, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- JP, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Phillip Perry, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- sarah gallagher, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Peter Gerken, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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