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General Post Office

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General Post Office

Summary

General Post Office is a post office[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of post_office entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (180 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • General Post Office is located in Dublin[3].
  • General Post Office is in the country of Ireland[4].
  • General Post Office's image is recorded as General Post Office Dublin 20060803.jpg[5].
  • General Post Office's instance of is recorded as post office[6].
  • General Post Office's instance of is recorded as architectural structure[7].
  • General Post Office's architect is recorded as Francis Johnston[8].
  • General Post Office's owned by is recorded as An Post[9].
  • General Post Office's architectural style is recorded as Greek Revival architecture[10].
  • General Post Office's architectural style is recorded as Georgian architecture[11].
  • General Post Office's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 315687276[12].
  • General Post Office's GND ID is recorded as 108593733X[13].
  • General Post Office's Commons category is recorded as General Post Office (Dublin)[14].
  • General Post Office's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 289528[15].
  • General Post Office's has part is recorded as GPO Arcade[16].
  • +1814-01-06T00:00:00Z marks the founding of General Post Office[17].
  • General Post Office's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 53.349334, 'lon': -6.261075}[18].
  • General Post Office's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/016qvm[19].
  • General Post Office's located on street is recorded as O'Connell Street[20].
  • General Post Office's significant event is recorded as Easter Rising[21].
  • General Post Office's date of official opening is recorded as +1818-01-06T00:00:00Z[22].
  • General Post Office's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ga', 'text': 'Ard-Oifig an Phoist'}[23].
  • General Post Office's Wiki Loves Monuments ID is recorded as IE-D-0086[24].
  • General Post Office's nighttime view is recorded as Digital Eye–2015–GPO-2.jpg[25].
  • General Post Office's Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage ID is recorded as 50010500[26].
  • General Post Office's image of interior is recorded as Dublin-GPO-Interior-4.jpg[27].

Body

Geography

General Post Office is in the country of Ireland[4]. It is located in Dublin[3].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include post office[6] and architectural structure[7].

History and Context

+1814-01-06T00:00:00Z marks the founding of General Post Office[17]. Its owned by is recorded as An Post[9].

Why It Matters

General Post Office ranks in the top 1% of post_office entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (180 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

Ireland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-04-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located on street → O'Connell Street
    Architect → Francis Johnston
    Has part(s) → GPO Arcade
    Inception → —
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ [[Property:P227]]: 7560765-7, resolving redirect"
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