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Telephone box in Glinsk

Telephone box
Telephone box in Glinsk
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Telephone box in Glinsk has traded its little glass door panes for one great sheet of perspex. You went in to make a private call and came out having performed a one-man aquarium show for the post office.

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Freestanding moulded concrete telephone box, erected c.1965, standing to front of Glinsk Post Office. Cream painted sides and door, with green to edges. Small panes to each side, door being replacement with single sheet of perspex. Set into low rendered wall.
This telephoe box is one of the few surviving now that Eircom have taken most of them out of service. It was built by the Department of Posts and Telegraphs before the sell-off the private enterprise.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30400704

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