Post box in Ballybricken Green, County Waterford

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What is recorded here

Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c.1935, with raised 'P&T' insignia in Gaelic script. Set into painted rendered, ruled and lined wall.

This cast-iron post box, which is still in use, is an attractive item of street furniture and represents an early surviving artifact of mass-produced cast ironwork. The raised detailing is of artistic interest, the Gaelic script representing the continued promotion of a national identity within the emergent independent state.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 22502678

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