Post box in Callan South, County Kilkenny

What is recorded here

Post box in Callan South wears Edward the Seventh’s royal badge beneath a little domed cap. It has the look of a man who introduces himself by his full title, then asks you for a lift because his mother has the car.

Freestanding cast-iron pillar post box, between 1901-10, with raised "ER VII" royal cipher, moulded necking, and shallow domed capping. Road fronted on concrete footpath.

Supplied by the Handyside Foundry of Derby and London a post box representing an early-surviving artefact of mass-produced cast-iron work makes a pleasing, if subtle visual statement in the streetscape. Raised details contributing to the design aesthetic of the composition include a royal cipher of particular importance as a tangible reminder of the period when Ireland formed part of the British Empire.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12314063

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