Post box in Athlone and Bigmeadow, County Westmeath

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What is recorded here

Freestanding cast-iron pillar post box, erected c.1915, with moulded neck and domed cap with fluted edge. Road fronted on a corner site on footpath.

An attractive item of early-surviving mass-produced cast-iron, simple in design with decorative detailing to the cap. It occupies a prominent corner site and contributes to the historic flavour of the streetscape. It is unusual in that it has no cipher, suggesting that it was removed later.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15000419

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