What is recorded here
Post box in Tirkeenan sticks its ‘POST OFFICE’ sign out into a road junction with tremendous confidence. Ask it the way to anywhere else and it becomes a wall. We’ve all met that local expert.
Wall-mounted cast-iron post box with hinged door, installed c.1880, set into smooth-rendered boundary wall pier. Moulded margin surround, projecting letter slot with raised lettering 'POST OFFICE', royal insignia of Victoria, and crown motif to upper section, and with foundry name 'W.T. Allen & Co. London' to base. Sited at road junction at south-east side of Monaghan town centre.
This Victorian post-box is an attractive item of street furniture that is representative of mass produced cast-iron ware. The embossed royal cipher and banded margins and royal cipher enhance this utilitarian object. The monogram is furthermore a reminder of a time when Ireland formed part of the British Empire. It is also a well designed example of high quality mass-produced cast-iron.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 41303166
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