Post box in Kilmacow, County Kilkenny

What is recorded here

Post box in Kilmacow sits in a smooth frame against a rough wall, with Victoria’s initials proudly on show. It’s dressed as a royal portrait, but you can put the gas bill through it. Try that in a palace.

Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, between 1881-1901, with raised "VR" royal cipher. Set in painted roughcast wall with rendered surround.

Making a pleasing, if subtle visual impression in the street scene a post box represents an important, if small-scale artefact of early mass-produced cast-iron work. Raised dressings identifying the aesthetic concerns of the composition include a cipher of significance as a tangible reminder of the period when Ireland formed part of the British Empire.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12329028

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