post box

Freestanding cast-iron pillar post-box on circular-plan, erected 1922 - 46. Cylindrical drum with moulded necking having dentilled frieze, projecting letter slot, moulded and slightly projecting base, and having shallow domed capping over. Foundry stamp to base reads ‘Carron Company, Stirlingshire’. Raised lettering above letter flap reading ‘Next Collection’. Situated on a concrete base, adjacent to footpath, to the west/south-west of Bundoran town centre.

An attractive item of street furniture that represents an early surviving artefact of mass-produced cast-iron ware and street furniture. The modest design of the box is enhanced by the various decorative moulded detailing, such as the fluted cap, and by the raised lettering, which enliven this otherwise functional object. It was cast by the Carron Company of Stirlingshire, Scotland. This prominently-sited pillar box now acts a subtle and well-made historical artefact, adding aesthetic incident to the streetscape to the west of Bundoran. It is one of the few pillar boxes still surviving in County Donegal. This pillar box replaced an earlier post box in this part of Bundoran (Ordnance Survey twenty-five inch map c. 1900), which was located a short distance to the east (and across the road) of the present location.