478 THE BREWING INDUSTRY IN IRELAND. 



The whole of the machinery throughout the estabhshment of Messrs. 

 Beamish and Crawford, is worked by electric motors. All casks used for 

 the brewery are made on the premises at the cooperage, and so pleased are 

 the Cork Coopers' Society with the work done, that they asked Messrs. 

 Beamish and Crawford to exhibit their oak casks at the Cork Exhibition, 

 which they agreed to do. The generosity of the firm is shown by the 

 contributions which they have made to the re-building of St. Fin Barre's 

 Cathedral, and to the enlargement of the Queen's College, Cork ; whilst 

 the Crawford Municipal School of Art perpetuates the munificence of the 

 late Mr. W. H. Crawford. 



This brewery was estabHshed over lOO years ago by Mr. Rickard Deasy, 



the father of the late Mr. Justice Deasy, in conjunc- 

 The Clonakilty tion with the father of the Rev. Henry Stewart, at one 

 Brewery. time Rector of Rathbarry, and the business was dis 



posed of, about twenty years ago, by order of the 

 Court of Chancery and was purchased by Messrs. Travers, Canty, and 

 Wright. It is a Limited Liability Company, with a nominal capital of 

 £20,000. In their neighbourhood, within the last quarter of a century, two 

 breweries have ceased working, one in Skibbereen and the other in Bandon 

 in the West Riding of Cork, and as is always the case in the survival of 

 the fittest, Messrs. Deasy and Co.'s trade has improved. This firm 

 purchase locally between 5,000 and 6,000 barrels of barley per annum, and 

 they axe particularly well situated for a good supply of barley, as the land 

 lying along the sea board is especially suitable for its growth, and the sea 

 weed makes an excellent manure. They are anxious to improve the quality 

 of the barley grown, and think that information as to the best seed and 

 where to get it, and instruction as to the sowing, treatment, and dressing of 

 the crop would be of material advantage to the farmers. This firm brew 

 exclusively from malt and hops, and use neither substitutes nor sugar, and 

 have a large business in bottled stout especially in their neighbourhood. 

 They do a large bottling trade, and make a specialty of ginger beer. 

 They obtained first class highest diploma medal at the World's Fair in 

 Chicago, 1893. 



The Bandon Brewery has been established for close on a century, but its 



ownership changed about the year 1865, when it was 



The Bandon acquired by its present proprietors, Messrs. Allman, 



Brewery. Dowden and Co. It is not a limited company but a 



private concern, and its business has been principally 

 a local one, but of late it has been extending considerably to the more 

 distant towns and districts of County Cork, as well as to other counties in 

 the South of Ireland. Its trade, like other County Cork breweries, is largely 

 a tied business. Lately its plant has been completely remodelled, and 

 improved with the most up-to-date machinery, etc., necessitated by the 

 increased demand for its produce. It is what is known as a twenty-five 

 quarter plant, capable of an output of 400 barrels per week. Bemg situated 

 in the centre of a fine barley-growing district, the brewery is in a position 

 to obtain its supplies of grain for malting purposes from the local farmers. 

 Nothing is used in the manufacture but hops and malt produced from the 

 finest qualities of home-grown barley, and the output now is increasing 

 largely month by month. 



There were two other breweries working in Cork until recently, but they 

 have been amalgamated with the existing establislj ments. 



