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Watt retired, and Isaac il'Cune became partner, the firm being then known 

 as Kirkwood & M'Cune. This firm carried on the business until 1837, when 

 M'Cune went to Belfast, and John Kirkwood carried it on alone. 



In 1838 the works were offered for sale, as K!u-kwood stated he wished to 

 remove to his extensive flint-glass manufactory at Eamhill, near Liverpool. 

 The sale appears not to have taken place, as Kii^kwood continued as proprietor 

 until 1847, when the works were closed and the stock-in-trade sold. 



The closing of this factory terminated the manufacture of glass in Newry. 



Balltcastle. 



In 1755 a glass house was ejected at Ballycastle, Co. Antrim, for the 

 purpose of making bottles, the sand for which was obtained locally. 



Hugh Boyd appears to have been the chief proprietor, and with him were 

 associated Jackson Wray, Laurence Cruise, James Urch, and John Magawly. 

 In the same year the proprietors stated that the pubhc could be supplied 

 with any number of bottles, and that the glass house was 60 feet in diameter, 

 and was capable of carrying on the glass-bottle-manufacture in all its 

 branches. 



They also stated that they intended to make window and plate glass ; but 

 no mention occurs of any window glass ever having been made. Apparently, 

 in 1756, Laurence Cruise ched, and a thii'd share in the glass hoi;se was 

 offered for sale. Boyd and the other proprietors carried on the business until 

 1764, when, at the instance of Boyd, Hemy Lunn and Thomas Smith 

 Jewdwin, English glass-makers in Dublin, took a lease of the Ballycastle 

 glass house, at the rent of £1000 per annum. 



Hugh Boyd died in 1765, and Lunn, Jewdwin, and Magawly appear to 

 have contiaued the manufacture of bottles, having received premiums fi'om 

 the Pioyal Dublin Society in 1765 and 1766, for bottles valued at £1930. 



The Ballycastle glass house continued working until about 1785 or 1790. 



In 1782 among the ships arri\-ing in Belfast was one from Ballycastle 

 laden with glass ; and in 1795 the Ballycastle colliery was advertised to be 

 let, but no mention was made of the glass house. 



The chimney remained standing until towards the close of the last cen- 

 tury, when it was pulled down ; and the site of the factory is now occupied 

 by tennis grounds. 



LONDONDEKKY. 



The only record of glass-making in Londonderry occurs in 1820. In the 

 Ordnance Survey of the County of Londonderry it is said that in that year 



