Post box in Borris, County Carlow

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What is recorded here

Wall-mounted cast-iron Victorian letter box, c. 1880.

Photo credits

National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Smirkybec, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Maker not stated on source page, knightstemplar.co
Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
Maker not stated on source page, tr.pinterest.com
Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
Carlow Nationalist (publisher); individual photographer not stated, www.carlow-nationalist.ie
Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com

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