post box

Freestanding cast-iron pillar post box, erected c.1960. Moulded neck, shallow domed cap, curved hinged door having single aperture to west elevation. Maker’s mark ‘CARRON SCOTLAND’ to plinth of east elevation. Located on north side of Ballyfermot Road to south of Mount La Salle educational complex.

A notable example of quality mass-produced cast-iron work produced in the mid to late twentieth-century. The form references earlier designs, but the lack of dentillation or royal insignia indicates its later manufacture. Pillar boxes were sited in busy urban areas with large volumes of post, where wall boxes would have provided insufficient capacity, and its erection indicates the rapid growth of Ballyfermot at the time. Still in use today, this pillar box was probably erected following the construction of the Mount La Salle educational complex to the north c.1950, and Our Lady of Assumption Church to the west in 1953.