post box — QUARRYHILL

The label post box gives the safest clue to purpose or form. It does not by itself prove the exact building method, daily use, age or sequence of changes at this place.

The short source does not safely name the people, events or traditions tied to this exact point. A famous nearby story is not attached without evidence that it belongs here.

The saved wording does not establish one complete story of attack, rebuilding, abandonment, damage or later change. No single cause is claimed without evidence.

The saved source records: Cast-iron post box, c.1880, with VR (Victoria Regina) insignia and crown, set in rendered limestone wall.

post box — QUARRYHILL matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: The modest form of this box is enhanced by the simple and well executed lettering and crown, which add artistic interest. Post-Independence, most postboxes bearing royal insignia were simply painted green rather than replaced. The replacement of the door with one bearing the Saorstát Éireann emblem is of historical importance, and the two emblems symbolise the transition from colonial to native government. It is located at a crossroads which was the focus of the local community and was the location of both an eighteenth-century church and nineteenth- and mid-twentieth-century national schools. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.