482 THE BREWING INDUSTRY IN IRELAND. 



of August 26th, 1899, spoke highly of the quahty of the beer and the 

 efiiciency of the arrangements. The firm has won several medals, including 

 the first prize medal for porter at the Exhibition of Irish Arts and Manu- 

 factures of 1882, the first prize medal for superior quality of beer at the 

 Irish Artisans' Exhibition in Dublin in 1885, and the gold medal for ale 

 and stout at the Distillers, Brewers, and Allied Trades Exhibition held at 

 Dublin in 1892. 



Drogheda has a second brewery which was founded in 1840 by Mr. 



Patrick Casey. He was succeeded in the business by 



Casey's Drogheda his nephew, Mr. Patrick Casey Connolly, J.P., who 



Brewery. extended the trade m many directions and turned the 



brewery into a Limited Liability Company in 1889. 

 On the death of Mr. Casey Connolly, in 1894, re-organisation became neces- 

 sary, and the present Company was registered in July, of that year. The 

 directors, Messrs. Christopher Tighe, Samuel Hunter, William Bannon, and 

 John Dolan are well known local men, with a good knowledge of the 

 trade in the district, and every effort is being made by them to promote the 

 prosperity of the concern. The brewery buildings are situated in West- 

 street and Stockwell-street, and the}' also have those fine premises known 

 as the Mell Brewery, where they carry on their malting operations, buying 

 considerable quantities of Louth barley. 



The success attending the County Louth breweries, the splendid water 



supply of Dundalk, the fact that its markets are well 

 The Great Northern supplied with high class barley, and its favourable 

 Brewery Company, geographical position in the centre of the service 



afforded by the Great Northern Railway Company, 

 as well as the fact of Dundalk being in direct communication with England 

 and Scotland by means of the Dundalk and Newry Steam Packet Company, 

 induced some gentlemen in Dundalk and its neighbourhood to lease, in 1897, 

 a very suitable site adjacent to the Dundalk railway station, and to form a 

 Company with a capital of ;^30,ooo, for the establishment of a new brewery 

 in Dundalk, under the name of " The Great Northern Brewery, Limited." 

 Whether from the view of advertisement or convenience no better site 

 could have been chosen ; and although business in the North of Ireland took 

 a turn for the worse shortly after the concern started, in the brewing as well 

 as other trades, owing to the war and other causes, the new Company have, 

 owing to the energy of the Managing Director, Mr. John M. Cox, and the 

 Secretary, Mr. F. H. Cox, opened up a business over a wide area in the 

 North and North-West of Ireland. In view of the fact that competi- 

 tion is keener, and old associations more firmly knit between the trade and 

 already established breweries in the County Louth than in any other part of 

 Ireland, they have made considerable headway, and have paid dividends of 

 five per cent, to the shareholders. The firm have a railway siding into their 

 brewery and into their stores at Queensbridge in Belfast. The barley 

 purchased by the Company has been successful in obtaining prizes at the 

 Spring Show in Dublin. 



The Kilkenny Collection District. 



The fourth largest Collection District is that of Kilkenny, which contains 

 no less than ten breweries, all of which are situated in the heart of the 



