What is recorded here

Freestanding round-plan cast-iron postbox, installed c. 1930, having shallow domed cap, moulded corona, neck moulding, cylindrical shaft and moulded plinth base. Curved hinged door facing south incorporating letter slot with raised frame below and raised 'P&T' motif. Raised lettering An chéad bailiú eile/Next collection'. Raised lettering to plinth 'Carron Company Stirlingshire'.

One of many postboxes from the early years of the Irish Republic, bearing the foundry mark of the Carron Company of Stirling. The design draws heavily on the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century pillar boxes, but is distinguished by the 'P&T' logo of the Irish Department of Posts and Telegraphs/Poist agus Teileagrafa. The Carron Company (1759-1982) was at one of the largest ironworks in Europe and an important manufacturer of cast-iron street furniture in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This postbox constitutes a working, functional component of Dublin's postal heritage, adding to the overall character of Collins Avenue.

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