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The piu'chasers could have the entire stock of cut and plain glass, utensils, 

 coal, sand, pots, moulds, etc. 



The Belfast Glass "Works appear to have been purchased by John Kane, 

 about 1840. 



In 1823 John Wheeler, who was formerly in the employment of 

 Benjamin Edwards, erected a glass house for making fiint glass at the east 

 end of the Long Bridge near the other glass-works. In the next year he 

 appears in partnership with J. Stanfield and John Kane, a wine merchanc and 

 brewer. The warehouse of this glass house, known as the Ifew Glass House 

 Company, was burnt in 1825.: and the remaining stock of plain, cut, and 

 engraved flint glass was to be sold. 



About this time Sta,nfield and Wheeler appear to have retired, and the 

 business was carried on by John Kane alone. 



In 1827 he stated that he had enlarged his glass house, and had for sale a 

 large amoiint of cut and plain flint glass. 



In 1829 the concern was called the Shamrock Glass Works, BaUy- 

 macarrett ; and in 1833 Kane opened a warehouse for the sale of his glass at 

 40 North Street, and stated that he was making rich cut glass, patent deck 

 lights; hea^■y, light, and lunette watch-glasses; figure shades, oval and 

 round, etc. 



About 1840 Kane appears to have purchased the Peter's HiU Glass 

 Works, and to have carried on both concerns until about 1850. 



About this period the glass works in Ballymacarrett were taken over by 

 Chi'istopher O'Connor and William Boss, and appear to have been earned on 

 by Boss until about 1868. 



In 1813 Wallace Tennant stated that he had erected glass works in 

 Queen Street, Belfast, and from general and particular knowledge of the 

 business was going to make every description of ilint glass. 



In a directory of 1819 his name appears as a glass-cutter ; probably the 

 works did not pay ; and he became simply a cutter of other people's glass. 



In The Cork Mercantile Glironicle of April 17th, 1805, Wallace Tennant 

 advertised that he was about to open a warehouse for fancy and usefid glass, 

 and solicited patronage for Cork manufacture, as he had no doubt but that he 

 would produce articles of equal merit to those imported. In this case, as 

 afterwards in Belfast, he probably was simply a glass-cutter. 



About 1870 John Edwards, a descendant of Benjamin Edwards, was 

 making glass bottles in Belfast, bnt only on a very smaU scale, and the 

 manufacture did not last long. 



By about 1870 the manufacture of flint glass had quite died out in Belfast> 

 having lasted for nearly a hundred yeai's. 



