Post box in Finniterstown, County Limerick

What is recorded here

Post box in Finniterstown has a round head with a crown on it, like a boiled egg whose mother married well. You’d be afraid to approach it with a spoon.

Wall-mounted cast-iron round-headed post box, erected c. 1915, with raised royal insignia of King George V and crown. Mounted in rendered roadside wall.

This early twentieth-century post box is of a simple design, and its insignia and crown are reminders of the period in Ireland immediately prior to Independence. The post box is also noteworthy due to the fact that it is one of a few remaining round-headed post boxes of this period in County Limerick.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21903002

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Mike Searle, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
SteveODowd, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
EecherplazGinkgo06.jpg : Cayambe derivative work: Ginkgotree ( talk ), Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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