post box

Freestanding round-plan cast-iron pillar postbox, installed c. 1900, having shallow domed cap, moulded corona, neck moulding, cylindrical shaft and moulded plinth base. Curved hinged door facing south with letter slot and lettering 'Post Office' incorporated into neck moulding; royal insignia of Edward VII almost invisible. Raised lettering to plinth base reads 'Handyside Derby & London'.

A surviving example of an early twentieth-century British postbox in Dublin, bearing the almost invisible royal insignia of Edward VII. Handyside foundry of Derby was a prominent manufacturer of Victorian postboxes, but declined after the turn of the twentieth century. The postbox's early date can be distinguished by its lack of Irish insignia and Gaelic text which appear after the foundation of the Republic.