post box — Philipsburgh Avenue

The record classifies post box — Philipsburgh Avenue as post box. It does not safely state the first owner's purpose beyond that use, so this first account does not borrow a story from a namesake.

No architect, builder, owner, worker or resident is named in the saved wording. Those people remain unknown until the linked official record or another source identifies them.

The saved wording does not establish particular rebuilding, extensions, damage or changes of use. No visible feature is assigned a date without supporting evidence.

The public record still identifies the place as post box. Its saved point marks the building or centre of its recorded area, but the stock wording does not provide a room-by-room condition report.

post box — Philipsburgh Avenue matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This attractive piece of street furniture attests to the artisanship in mass-produced cast-ironwork in the early twentieth century. The insignia, representing the national postal service, provides subtle artistic as well as contextual interest. It dates the box to the early years of the Irish Republic, giving it a symbolic value, as one of the first acts of the new Irish Government was to order that green would be the new colour for postboxes, and the use of Gaelic script was also symbolic. This postbox constitutes a working, functional component of Dublin's heritage, adding to the overall character of the… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.