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 north with raised frame and 'VR' cipher, lettering 'Post Office' incorporated into neck moulding, and raised lettering to plinth base reading 'Handyside Derby & London'.

A relatively rare surviving example of a late nineteenth-century pillar postbox in Dublin. The Handyside foundry of Derby was a prominent manufacturer of Victorian postboxes and declined after the turn of the century. The postbox's early date can be distinguished by its 'VR' monogram, dating it to before the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, and as such it stands as a relic of the latter years of British control in the Republic, and improved communication networks in the nineteenth century.