Post box on Summerhill Parade, County Dublin

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Freestanding cast-iron post box, erected c.1930. Round in plan, with shallow domed cap, moulded corona and neck moulding. Letter slot above framed notice with raised Gaelic lettering 'P & T' to full-height hinged door. Projecting plinth with maker’s name stating '…Enniscorthy'. Located on footpath on south side of…

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This well-preserved example of an early Free State pillar-box is still in active use on a commercial stretch of streetscape. A notable example of quality mass-produced cast-iron work produced in the early part of the twentieth century. The raised Gaelic script lettering was used by the government for many official purposes in the early decades of the state and is an everyday historic artefact of the new state’s infrastructure.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 50011136

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