Westropp — Glass-Making in Ireland. 39 



premises where the glass bottle factory formerly was on the North Wall. A 

 glass house is marked on this site in maps of Dublin of 1773 and 1787, but 

 no mention of it occurs in directories of these dates. 



In 1748 a glass house on the North Strand is mentioned, as in The Dublin 

 Jo^irnal of November 29th, 1748, it is stated that "a gentleman left some clay 

 with Mr. Minty at the Glass House on the North Strand to make tryal of." 



In 1750 a new glass house was erected at the lower end of Lazer's HiU. 

 The advertisement in The, Biiblin Joim-nal of June 9th, 1750, states that the 

 following articles were made, viz. : — Wide-mouthed quart and pint gooseberry 

 bottles suitable for pickles, etc., gardevins of any size ; pint, quart, pottle 

 and gallon rounds for druggists and distillers, round and square canister 

 bottles for snuff or flower of mustard, small garden bell-glasses ; tavern and 

 public-house quart, pint, and half-pint decanters for wine, cider, and ale. All 

 the above goods of bright green glass. This factory does not seem to have 

 lasted very long. No other notice of it occurs ; and it is not marked on 

 Rocque's map of 1756. 



In July, 1754, a William Gordon brought over from England a number of 

 workmen for a new glass house which was erected in Abbey Street opposite 

 the Ship Buildings : and in August of the same year it is said they were making 

 bottles as good as any imported. In 1761 it is stated in an advertisement in 

 The JDioblin Journal that the proprietors of this glass house had brought the 

 manufacture to such a degree of perfection that for several months past not a 

 single bottle had been imported from Bristol, Liverpool, or any other part of 

 England, and that they could afford to sell the bottles for 18s. per gross, being 

 6s. cheaper than those formerly imported from England. This factory appears 

 to have lasted for some years, being marked on a map of 1773. 



In 1759 an English company, with Thomas Smith Jewdwin, John Landon, 

 and Henry Lunn, as proprietors, started a glass house in Abbey Street, for the 

 purpose of making crown glass, and in the following year erected another for 

 making all sorts of flint and green glass. 



In a petition to Parliament in 1768, the proprietors stated that they were 

 natives of London, and had brought over skilled artists from abroad for 

 making flint glass and bottles, that they had spent money in searching 

 for and providing necessaries of the produce of Ireland for the manufacture, 

 and that they trained and instructed Irish apprentices ; but that the 

 foreign artists refused to work with the Irish, which stopped the manufacture 

 of window glass. They also stated that, in 1764, Hugh Boyd, of BaUyeastle, 

 asked them to take a lease of the BaUyeastle bottle-glass house, at the rent 

 of £1000 per anmim. This they did; but on Boyd's death in 1765, his 

 executor, Jackson Wray, behaved very badly, and threatened to imprison 



