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Lisburn and Banbridge Railway. Very superior bricks are made- 

 near Maypole, north of Drornore. — (g. s. m.) Brick-fields were 

 started in plastic clay near Ballykorney, and at Ardtole, near 

 Ardglass. 



Castle Espie. — In this neighbourhood there is an extensive trade 

 in bricks, principally for the Belfast market, and in tiles. Terra- 

 cotta also has been attempted there. The bricks are of a red 

 colour, moulded, and perforated, and equal, if not superior, to 

 the best Bridgewater bricks. They are made from the washed 

 boulder clay. — (g. s. m.) 



DUBLIN. 



Pipes. — Tobacco-pipes were made in the neighbourhood of 

 Dublin at a very early date. Quantities of those known as " Dane- 

 pipes " were found in Baggotrath, in the excavations for Waterloo- 

 road. The early manufacturers possibly used Irish clay ; but in 

 later years the material was probably imported. Francis-street 

 has long been the great home of the Tobacco-pipe makers ; the 

 " Crown L," made half a century ago by Loughlin, were world- 

 famed. At present there are about nine tobacco-pipe makers in 

 Dublin. 



Dr. Frazer, M.R.I. A., one of the best authorities on the 

 antiquities of Dublin, thinks it likely that the " Dane-pipes " were 

 of English manufacture (Introduction, ante, p. 145) ; but in Baggot- 

 rath there were in different places heaps of the debris of pipes, 

 similar to those now to be seen near a pipe-kiln, which lead us to 

 believe they had been made on the spot. 



Fuller's Earth occurs in places, but it is not now as valuable 

 as formerly. In different places associated with the gravels above 

 the 1 boulder-clay there are Potter's and Brick-clays ; but, un- 

 fortunately, in many places there is a heavy off -baring of gravel 

 that makes the clay expensive to get. 



Tradition has it that the houses in Merrion-square, and 

 neighbouring houses, were made from clay procured near Merrion, 

 also clay raised in the Square. Lately, while building the new 

 streets between Cork-street and the South Circular-road, the bricks 

 were burnt on the ground. When Waterloo-road was being made 

 from Upper Baggot-street to Donnybrook, a bed of potter's or 

 brick-clay was found. There are regular brick-yards and potteries 



