Post box in Cappagh, County Limerick

What is recorded here

Post box in Cappagh gave the Irish Free State a new door but left Queen Victoria’s crown above it. Independence, with the former landlady still living upstairs. You’d open your own front door and hear, “That’s not how we used to do it.”

Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, erected c. 1880, with VR insignia and crown motif. Replacement cast-iron door, c. 1925, having embossed Saorstat Éireann emblem. Mounted in rubble limestone wall.

This well preserved cast-iron post box, with its Queen Victoria monogram and Free State emblem serves as an important reminder of the change from British to Irish administration in the early years of the Free State. For this reason, the post box is of social and historical importance; it is also of technical interest for its cast-iron construction. The Saorstat Éireann emblem, in particular, is a design feature of artistic note.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21902024

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