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" Postchaise Companion," published in 1786, both apparently copied from the 

 previously mentioned work. In Angel's and in Wilson's accounts the present 

 tense is used : " here is a pottery," &e., but as no other reference to this 

 pottery has been found, it is unlikely that it was continued as late as 1786. 



Limerick. 



Apparently a delft manufactory was erected hi Limerick about the year 

 1762, for in that year the Dublin Society awarded a premium of £30 to 

 John Stritch and Christopher Bridson, of the City of Limerick, for erecting a 

 manufactory of earthenware in imitation of delft or white ware. Specimens 

 of the ware were produced and approved of by the Dublin Society. This is 

 the only reference to this manufactory I have found, so that at present it 

 is not known how long it lasted. Christopher Bridson died in 1768, and 

 perhaps it was closed shortly afterwards. 



Early in the nineteenth century coarse pottery was made in Limerick, 

 as proved by the following advertisement in The Limerick General Advertiser 

 for May, 1818 : — " John Hanks & Co. inform the public that they have 

 commenced the pottery and tile manufacture in the concerns lately occupied 

 by Joseph Sargent Esq., Newgate Lane, near the new Gaol, Limerick, 

 and wdl sell flooring, kiln, ridge, and pan tiles, garden pots, crockeryware 

 suitable for domestic purposes, and chimney tops, all of which will be of 

 the best manufacture, having gone to considerable expense to procure good 

 workmen. Earthenware articles made to any pattern, size or fashion." 



YOUGHAL. 



It has often been said that enamelled or tin-glazed earthenware was 

 formerly made in Youghal, but up to the present I have found no reference to 

 confirm this statement, and no mention occurs of any fine earthenware ever 

 having been made in Youghal in former times. Probably only coarse ware, 

 such as milk-pans, tiles, flower-pots, &c, was made. 



The names of the following potters in Youghal occur : — Thomas Green, 

 1652, Patrick Carthy, 1779, Matthew Shaw, 1781, Joseph Hanks, 1787, and 

 Thomas Pollock, 1795. In 1776 Hugh Pollock, of Youghal, brown earthen- 

 ware manufacturer, petitioned the Dublin Society for aid, but no further 

 reference to the matter occurs. Pollock's name appears in a Cork directory 

 of 17S7 as a manufacturer of all sorts of pottery, bricks, and tiles. In a 

 directory for 1820 the names of John Joseph Fisher, William Eestrick, and 

 Eyrie Sidley, earthenware manufacturers, appear; and it is also stated that 

 the manufacture of coarse or brown earthenware is in a flourishing state, 



