Post box in Ballyhaght, County Limerick

What is recorded here

Post box in Ballyhaght has Edward VII’s fine crown set into an ordinary house wall. A king with his own little door: exactly the accommodation an Irish mother would give royalty once she’d established he wasn’t having the good room.

Wall-mounted cast-iron round-headed post box, erected c. 1905, having ER VII insignia and crown motif. Set into wall of house.

This post box retains very fine insignia of Edward VII, which demonstrates the artistic qualities of mass production at the time of its casting. Such post boxes are becoming increasingly rare in Ireland and are now often replaced by plastic boxes.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21905505

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