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called the " Venice Glass House," as probably they made some glass in the 

 Venetian style. In 1798 Thomas Chebsey died, and the partnership was 

 dissolved. John Chebsey and the other partners advertised for sale the 

 warehouse in Jervis Street, the two glass houses at Ballybough Bridge, and the 

 stock-in-trade, comprising large quantities of every article in the flint-glass 

 trade, and also a large number of green and flint phials, rounds and tincture- 

 bottles for apothecaries. The concerns at Ballybough Bridge were said to 

 cover about two acres, with two fronts — one on to Annesley Bridge, and the 

 other on to the North Wall. John Chebsey appears to have been connected 

 about 1800 with the glass house in Newry, formerly belonging to Samuel 

 Hanna. Chebsey & Co. apparently kept on the warehouse in Jervis Street for 

 a couple of years ; but after 1800 their name disappears from the directories. 



This glass company made a considerable quantity of fine flint-glass. In 

 1788 they exported a large consignment to Cadiz ; and in the same year the 

 glass houses were visited by the Lord Lieutenant and the Marchioness of 

 Eockingham, accompanied by a number of the nobility, for the purpose of 

 ordering a set of magnificent lustres for St. Patrick's HaU and the new rooms 

 at the Castle ; and in 1790 a large quantity of plain and cut flint glass from 

 the Venice Glass House, Dublin, was advertised for sale in Kilkenny. From 

 1787 to 1794, the annual value of the flint glass produced by Chebsey & Co. 

 varied from £4000 to £7000. The site on which Chebsey's glass-works stood 

 is now occupied by Vitriol Works. 



In 1787 it is stated that the demand for crown glass for the French 

 market was so great that a wealthy English firm erected a glass house for this 

 branch of the manufacture, at the foot of Ringsend Bridge ; but no further 

 allusion to this factory occurs. 



John D. Ayckbown, a London cut-glass manufacturer, whose name appears 

 in Dublin directories from the year 1783, as a glass-seUer, at 15 Grafton Street, 

 advertises in 1800 as the proprietor of the " New Venice Glass and Chrystal 

 Manufactory," on the Blackrock Eoad, near the Canal. After this his name 

 still appears as a glass-seller, but nothing further appears to be known about 

 his glass house. 



James Donovan, whose name occurs as a glass and china merchant on 

 George's Quay, and in Poolbeg Street, from about 1770, appears in the 

 directories from 1819 to 1824, as a glass-manufactiu-er in Eichard Street, 

 Eingsend. 



In 1838 the Eev. Dr. Prior was proprietor of glass-works on FitzwiUiam 

 Quay, Eingsend. This glass house was afterwards known as the Eingsend 

 Bottle Company, and in 1883 exhibited black and white glass bottles at the 

 Cork Exhibition. 



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