38 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



About 1754 a company, consisting of Hugh White, Annesley Stewart, 

 Thomas Hawkshaw, and George Boyd, was formed for the purpose of making 

 glass bottles ; and a glass house, known as the Eound Glass House was erected 

 in Abbey Street. In 1757 Deane & Co. joined with Hawkshaw & Co., and 

 carried on the manufactui'e of bottles, and afterwards that of window-glass, 

 the latter of which they said was unknown in Ireland before. 



In 1758, besides bottles and window glass, they advertise large glass beUs 

 for gardens, glass vessels suitable for picklings, sweetmeats, etc., particular 

 kinds of bottles for preserving orange and lemon juice, garde\ans, rounds for 

 apothecaries, and any green or bottle glass-ware desu'ed. 



In 1756 Hawkshaw & Co. received £1500 and Deane & Co. £2000 from 

 Parliament for carrying on the glass manufacture, and in 1767 Deane & 

 Hawkshaw obtained £150 from the Dublin Society for window glass valued 

 at £2,600, and in 1769 £200 for window glass and bottles valued at £10,000. 

 Some of Deane's expenses when he started in 1754 are interesting : — 

 £800 for Stourbi-idge clay, £30 for Msh clay, £15 for coloui'ing, £10 for 

 sand, and £410 to fifty-fom- persons from abroad to settle and carry on the 

 manufacture. 



Deane & Hawkshaw appear to have carried on the bottle and window- 

 glass manufacture imtiL about 1794, when theii- names disappear from the 

 du-ectories. 



In 1734 a glass house was erected in Fleet Street, nearly opposite Price's 

 Lane, for the manufacture of flint glass. Among the objects made were fine 

 driuking-glasses, salvers, decanters, branches, globes for lamps, phials, glasses 

 for confectioners, green glass ^^.als for chemists and apothecaries, and beUs 

 for gardeners. 



In 1741 the proprietors appear to have had some trouble with the fire, as 

 they advertise London glass, which they will sell at their former prices untU 

 they can light the fire. 



In 1752 they appear' to be still importing English glass, and there is no 

 mention of their actually making any glass ; while in 1756 a Hugh Henry is 

 stated to have purchased the whole stock-in-trade of the glass warehouse. 



No glass house is marked in Fleet Street in Eocque's map of Dublin 

 dated 1756. 



In 1747 a bottle-glass house was erected on the North Wall, a little below 

 the present Custom House, the site being known as The Foot Lots, Nos. 1, 2, 

 and 3. The glass house was bur'nt in 1748, but was rebuilt the same year. 



In 1754 and 1760 the site was advertised for sale ; but whether the glass 

 house had then ceased working is not known. By the year 1 768, however, 

 the works were closed, as in that year a Heniy Eoche, stone-cutter, took the 



