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General Post Office — O'Connell Street Lower

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General Post Office — O'Connell Street Lower
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Pair of cast-iron lantern post bases and six cast-iron domed wheel-guards, erected c.1820, in front of GPO. Lantern bases positioned to either end of GPO portico with wheelguards positioned in front of each column of portico. Lantern post bases are on octagonal plan with fluted panels to each side, gadroon moulding and dome with eight webs having fluted detail and moulded octagonal finial. Wheel-guards have central rib and moulded collar in form of two scallops.

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