post box

Freestanding round-plan cast-iron pillar postbox, installed c. 1940, having plinth base, raised insignia of 'P&T' to front (northeast), moulded neck, dentillated frieze and domed cap. Partly obscured maker's mark to rear of base with raised lettering 'St. John's Works'. Located at north side of Botanic Avenue.

An attractive and functional piece of street furniture representative of the high quality of mass-produced cast-ironwork of the early twentieth century. The insignia, representing the national postal service, dates the box to the early years of the Irish Republic, and is commensurate with a period of suburban expansion in north Dublin in the first half of the twentieth century. While the maker’s mark is obscured, it is likely to be St. John's Ironworks, Enniscorthy, which produced many similarly styled and detailed postboxes in the 1920s-30s.