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Three other glass bottle companies also exhibited, viz. : — The Irish Glass 

 Bottle Co., Charlotte Quay ; The Dublin Glass Bottle Co., North Lotts ; and 

 Alexander Brown & Son, 175 Church Street ; but no mention of white flint 

 or cut-glass appears. 



In 1855 the brothers John and Thomas Pugh, from Cork, had a glass 

 house in Liffey Street. They had formerly been in the employment of 

 Charles and E. S. Irwin, and appeared to have carried on the business when the 

 Irwins retired. 



In 1856 the proprietors were the two Pughs, George Collias, and Joseph 

 Marsh ; from 1864 to 1869, Pugh, Munkettrick, & Co. ; and from 1870 to 

 1896, Thomas and Eichard Pugh. From 1864 to 1896, when the manufacture 

 ceased, the glass house was in Potter's Alley. 



The Pughs, who turned out large quantities of cut and engraved glass, 

 flint glass, and also coloured glass, were the last of a long liae of flint-glass- 

 manufacturers in Dublin. 



Watekfoed. 



The earliest record of a glass house connected with Waterford occurs in 

 1729. About this time one was erected within two or three miles of the 

 town, on the banks of the Suir, at a place called Gurteens ; but although 

 practically belonging to Waterford, the glass house was really in Co. 

 Kilkenny. 



Advertisements occur in the BiMin Journal in 1729 and 1731, stating that 

 all sorts of double and single flint glass, garden glasses, vials, and other green 

 ware were made, together with bottles with and without marks. The 

 proprietor, John Head, also stated that crown and other glass for windows 

 was soon to be made. The manufacture was carried on untU about 1741, 

 when the glass house and twenty-one acres of land, with a good quay and 

 slips, warehouses, sheds, and a malt-house, were advertised to be let for a term 

 of years ; application was to be made to Michael Head or to George Backas in 

 Waterford. Materials belonging to the glass house were also to be disposed 

 of, includiug pots, iron tools, kelp, and a large parcel of ingredients for making 

 crown glass. Probably shortly after 1741, the manufacture ceased, as about 

 1760 the whole of the lauds were offered for sale, but no mention was made 

 of the glass house. 



The next glass house we have a record of was erected on the quay at 

 Waterford in 1783 by George and WiUiam Penrose, who in that year petitioned 

 Parliament for aid to establish the manufacture of flint glass in Waterford, 

 and in the following year stated that they had established a complete flint- 



