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sort of black ware and sugar moulds equal to a ny imported, also floor and 

 kiln tiles, garden pots, fire bricks, and chimney pots." 



In 1767 Thomas Hardin, of Portadown, presented a petition to the Dublin 

 Society stating that he was the only person in Ireland who carried on the 

 manufacture of black crockery- ware by means of turf fuel only, and manu- 

 factured said ware to the value of £200 yearly, and asked for aid to erect 

 buildings and lay in materials. 



In 1793 Thomas Clougher of the Derrycaw Pottery, near Charlemont, 

 Co. Antrim, states that he makes " all kinds of black ware glazed with 

 English glaze, and equal to any imported ; also sugar moulds and drips, flooring 

 and kiln tiles, bricks and chimney tops." 



In 1803 William Eobb & Co. advertise that they "have commenced the 

 crock manufacture at Derrybroughy near Portadown, and make all 

 descriptions of black crocks, bricks, tiles and garden pots." 



Coarse pottery was also made at Agivey and near Castledawson, Co. 

 Londonderry, and at Ballycastle, Co. Antrim, early in the nineteenth century. 



In the " Statistical Survey of Co. Down," published in 1802, it is stated 

 that a pottery was carried on at Lambeg, near Belfast, by a firm of English 

 potters for over a century, but that only coarse ware was made there. 



Pottery works were set up at Lame about the middle of the nineteenth 

 century. The works were built by James Agnew and carried on under the 

 management of his agent, Mr. J. "Walker, from 1850 to 1855, and afterwards 

 for two or three years by the Greenock Pottery Co. White and printed 

 earthenware, cane ware, brown pans, crocks, and kitchen utensils were made, 

 some of the pottery being made from local clays. 



In the Dublin Exhibition of 1853 "Walker exhibited fire- and com in on 

 bricks, crucibles, common and black ware, jars, Eockingham teapots, cane ware, 

 baking-dishes, breakfast- and tea- services, bowls, wine-coolers, and porous 

 water-jugs ; and in the Cork Exhibition of 1852, among other things, 

 flooring-tiles. 



In the Cork Exhibition of 1883 Eobert Burns of Ballynakelly Pottery, 

 Coalisland, Co. Tyrone, exhibited black and yellow glazed tall crocks, wash- 

 and milk-pans, flower-pots, and terra-eotta, some hand-painted, exhibited to 

 show the manufacture rather than the painting. Coarse pottery had been 

 made at Coalisland from early in the nineteenth century. 



During the second half of the nineteenth century a Mr. Samuel Murland 

 established brick and tile works at Castle Espie, near Comber, Co. Down. 

 About 1870 or 1880 common brown glazed pottery was made, consisting of 

 dairy vessels, tea-pots, flower-vases, etc. 



The chief and almost only manufacture of fine earthenware in Ireland in 



