Post box in Glebe

Cast-iron wall-mounted post box, c. 1930, with ‘Carron Company, Stirlingshire’ foundry mark to base and ‘Post Office’ in raised lettering above letter flap. Set into rubble stone boundary wall to the east of Cloondara.

This simple post box is an appealing, if subtle feature in the streetscape to the east of Cloondara. It was cast at the Carron Company foundry in Stirlingshire, Scotland, and represents an interesting artefact of mass-produced cast-iron work. It is unusual in that it doesn’t have a royal or Irish cipher. It is possibly a British post box with the royal cipher removed after Independence in 1922 and therefore represents a subtle form of cultural reclamation. A ‘post office’ stood to the south side of the this post box (across the main road) in 1914 (Ordnance Survey third edition six-inch map).