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Cork. 



Although premrams were offered by the Eoyal Dublin Society, as early as 

 1753, for erecting a glass house in Cork, no one appears to have taken 

 advantage of the offer ; and it was not until 1782 that a glass factory was 

 set up in the city. 



On November 6th, 1783, Atwell Hayes, Thomas Burnett, and 

 Francis Eichard Eowe presented a petition to Parliament asking for aid 

 to carry on the glass manufacture in Cork, and stated that, in the month of 

 May, 1782, at great expense and under a variety of difficulties, they had 

 embarked on the undertaking by sending a proper person to England to take 

 plans of the most complete and extensive works of that kind carried on there, 

 and also to employ experienced hands and procure the best materials, the 

 accomplishment of which had been attended with heavy expense and great 

 inconvenience. 



They also stated that they had surmounted all difficulties, and had 

 procured the most ample set of materials and implements and a set of the 

 most able artificers that England could afford, and that they had now erected 

 two houses, one for bottles and window glass and the other for plate and flint 

 glass of all denominations, which were allowed to equal if not to excel any in 

 Europe. The establishment, they said, had already been attended with an 

 expenditure of upwards of £6000. 



The following advertisement in Tlic Hibernian Chronicle for May, 1784, is 

 interesting : — 



"Thomas Burnett & Co. inform the public that they have now ready 

 at theii' glass manufactory in Hanover Street, Cork, a great variety of 

 plain and cut flint glass, with black bottles of every denomination, which for 

 excellence of quality is equal to any made in England. They now flatter 

 themselves that after upwards of two years' perseverance through a variety of 

 difficulties, they have established this useful bianch of business on a sure 

 footing. John Bellesaigne next door to the glass house retails the glass of 

 said manufactory only." 



In 1787 BeUesaigne opened a shop in Patrick Street, Cork, where he had 

 a great variety of cut and engraved glass, which, he stated, he himself saw 

 made at Waterf ord. 



In 1785 Bm-nett & Co. advertised bottles and squares as good as any 

 imported, or made in Ireland. 



Thomas Burnett and Francis Eowe appear to have retii-ed from the 

 business about 1787 ; and it was then carried on by Alwell Hayes and 

 PhiUp Allen. 



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