Overview
post box — Cappagh is recorded as post box in Limerick. The saved source gives an exact reason to look beyond the map label: Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, erected c. 1880, with VR insignia and crown motif.
Why it was built
The saved source records: Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, erected c. 1880, with VR insignia and crown motif.
People and work
The short source does not safely name the people, events or traditions tied to this exact point. A famous nearby story is not attached without evidence that it belongs here.
How it changed
The saved wording does not establish one complete story of attack, rebuilding, abandonment, damage or later change. No single cause is claimed without evidence.
What survives
The saved source records: Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, erected c. 1880, with VR insignia and crown motif.
Why it mattered
post box — Cappagh matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: 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. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cappaghmonument0.2 miles
- Indicated — Cappaghmonument0.2 miles
- Cappagh Castlecastle0.2 miles
- Cappagh Castle (in ruins) — Cappaghcastle0.2 miles
- Cappagh Housebuilding0.4 miles
- Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Callowmonument0.6 miles
- Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballintredidamonument0.6 miles
- Church (in ruins) — Cappaghmonument0.6 miles
- Curraheen House — Cappaghbuilding0.6 miles
- Grave Yard — Cappaghmonument0.6 miles
- Mapped graveyard — County Limerickmemorial0.6 miles
- Angela's Cottage — Cappaghbuilding0.7 miles
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