Westkopp — Glass- Making in Ireland. 51 



In the next year the following notice occurs in The Overseer, a Cork weekly 

 paper : — 



" By the forming of the Waterloo Glass House Company, which is now 

 at full work, Mr. Daniel Foley is giving employment to more than one 

 hundred persons. His workmen are well selected, from whose superior skill 

 the most beautiful glass will shortly make its appearance, to dazzle the eyes 

 of the public, and to outshine that of any competitors. They have a new 

 band of music, with glass instruments, bessons, serpents, horns, trumpets, &c. ; 

 and they have even a glass pleasure-boat, a cot and a glass net, which when 

 seen will astonish the world." 



Daniel Foley & Co. had their warerooms in Hanover Street, where they 

 sold lustres and all kinds of fancy glass; and in 1821 they advertised the sale 

 of china as well, having been appointed agents in Cork for Mason's ironstone 

 china and Grainger & Lee's Worcester china. 



In 1824 Foley & Co. opened a warehouse at 48 Lower SackviUe Street 

 Dublin, for the sale of their glass ; and stated that, owing to the amount of 

 labour and machinery at the Waterloo Works, they could execute orders 

 quicker than any other firm. 



In the following year Foley took as partner Geoffrey O'Connell ; and in 

 1829 they stated that they had reduced the price of glass 20 per cent., and by 

 a recent improvement in the process of annealing they were enabled to warrant 

 their glass hot-water-proof. 



The firm of Foley & O'Connell carried on the business until 1830, when 

 the partnership was dissolved, and the manufacture ceased. 



The stock-in-trade was sold at reduced prices ; and in January, 1831, the 

 premises were sold by auction, together with the remaining . stock, including 

 decanters, claret-jugs, salad-bowls, dessert services complete, water-jugs, crofts, 

 tumblers, rummers, butter-coolers, pickle-urns, chimney lustres, chandeliers, 

 ceiling lustres, &c. 



The premises appear to have been purchased by the Midleton Brewery for 

 warehouses; and at the present day the site is occupied by Beamish & Crawford's 

 Brewery, on whose premises still stands the old Glass House chimney. 



In 1818 another glass house was erected in Cork by Edward and Richard 

 Eonayne, at the western end of the South Terrace, and known as the Terrace 

 Glass Works. This glass house appears to have made white flint-glass only ; 

 and the proprietors stated that they made cut and plain glass lustres, Grecian 

 lamps of the most perfect and brilliant metal, superior to any heretofore 

 exhibited in Cork, and equal to any in the United Kuigdom. 



- About 1830 warerooms were opened at 121 Patrick Street, Cork, for the 

 sale of the glass. 



