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Queen Victoria post box

Eglish, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Queen Victoria post box, Eglish, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Record only (not listed)
Grade
Record Only
Type
Post Box
Date of construction
1880 - 1899
Address
Queen Victoria post box, In the wall of an outbuilding at, 1 Tarthlogue Road, Eglish, Portadown, Craigavon, Co Armagh
Townland
Eglish
Council
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
Country
Northern Ireland
Coordinates
54.44896, -6.55313
Date of survey
31 December 2004
HB reference
HB15/02/067

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1868 map "4. Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A Queen Victoria post-box made of cast iron set in the wall of a single storey outbuilding. Post-box inscribed 'VR' with a raised crown, and 'T. Allen & Co. London'; identified as post-box no. BT62 37.

SETTING: The building in which the post-box is set stands facing directly onto a minor road in a rural area.

Historical information

Manufactured by T. Allen & Co of London to a standard design in the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) and presumably installed in its current position during the same period. The building in whose wall it is housed appears on the OS map of 1834-5, and is marked as 'School House' on the OS map of 1859.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1834-5, Co Armagh 5.
2. OS Map 1859, Co Armagh 5.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is an example of a wall-mounted post-box of the period of the reign of Queen Victoria which is built into the front of a building of no special architectural or historic interest.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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