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In 1755 a glass-house appears to have been erected at 

 Marlborough Green. In 1764 a notice appears in the Dtiblin 

 Journal stating that "the glass-house at Marlborough Green is 

 now enlarged and the furnaces rebuilt in the completest manner. 

 Any quantity or kind of flint or green glass, cut, flowered, or plain, 

 is now made as bespoke by James Donnelly & Co., workmen 

 from London." 



The Williams family (Richard, William, Thomas, and Isaac) 

 were connected with this glass-house, and probably carried it on 

 themselves, as in June. 1764, Williams & (]o., Marlborough Green, 

 obtained a premium from the Dublin Society for flint glass valued 

 at _;^i,6oo. 



The name of Richard Williams & Co. appears in Dublin 

 directories from about 1772 to 1829 as proprietors of glass-works 

 in Marlborough Street and Potter's Alley. 



About 1773 Richard Williams opened a warehouse for the 

 sale of his glass at 15 Lower Ormond Quay, and among the 

 objects mentioned are casters, girandoles, chandeliers, candle- 

 sticks and candlemoulds, pyramids, salvers, bowls, decanters, 

 water glasses, drinking glasses, snielling bottles, epergnes, hall and 

 staircase bells, and every other article that can be made of flint 

 glass, cut, engraved and plain. 



One of the Williams family erected a new glass-house in 

 1777 in Marlborough Street, " lower end of Abbey Street near the 

 dry dock " ; but when the scaffolding was taken away it fell to the 

 ground, kilhng four men. 



In 1785 Richard and W''illiam Williams petitioned Parlia- 

 ment against the proposal to pull down the glass-houses in the 

 city of Dublin, and to erect them outside ; and stated that they 

 had carried on the manufacture where they were for nearly thirty 

 years and employed about seventy persons. 



The name of Isaac Williams appears in 1768 as a petitioner 

 before the Dublin Society for aid to carry on the flint glass manu- 

 facture. Probably he was a partner with Richard Williams. 



In 1785 iron works were erected by a Mr. Carrothers, near 

 Bally bough Bridge, but during the next year the firm moved to 



