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Thomas Street, and the concerns at Ballybough Bridge were taken 

 over by Thomas Chebsey & Co. for the purpose of carrying on the 

 manufacture of flint glass and plate glass for coaches. In 1788 

 they opened a warehouse in Jervis Street, which they called the 

 "Venice Glass House," as probably they made some glass in the 

 Venetian style. This glass factory turned out large quantities of 

 fine flint glass. In 1788 a record consignment was exported to 

 Cadiz, and in the same year the glass-houses were visited by the 

 Lord Lieutenant and the Marchioness of Rockingham, accompanied 

 by a number of the nobility, for the purpose of ordering a set of 

 magnificent lustres for St. Patrick's Hall and the new rooms at the 

 Castle. In 1790 a large quantity of plain and cut flint glass from 

 the Venice Glass House, Dublin, was advertised for sale in Kil- 

 kenny. From 1787 to 1794 the yearly value of the flint glass 

 produced by Chebsey & Co. varied from ;^4,ooo to ;^7,ooo. 



In 1798 Thomas Chebsey died and the partnership was 

 dissolved. John Chebsey and the other partners advertised for 

 sale the warehouse in Jervis Street, the two glass-houses at Bally- 

 bough Bridge and the stock-in-trade, comprising large quantities of 

 every article in the flint glass trade, together with a large number 

 of green and flint phials, rounds and tincture bottles for apothe- 

 caries. The concerns at Ballybough Bridge were said to cover 

 about two acres, and had two fronts, — one on Annesley Bridge and 

 the other on the North Wall. John Chebsey appears to have been 

 connected about 1800 with the glass-house in Newry, formerly 

 belonging to Samuel Hanna. Chebsey & Co. apparently kept on 

 the warehouses in Jervis Street for a couple of years, but after 

 1 800 their name disappears from the directories. 



The site on which Chebsey's glass-houses stood is now 

 occupied by vitriol works, mentioned in 181 2. 



In 1787 it is stated in the Dublin Journal that the demand 

 for crown glass for the French market was so great that a wealthy 

 company from England erected a glass-house at the foot of Ring- 

 send Bridge. In the Dublin Evening Post fox March ist, 1798, 

 the following advertisement appears : — The public are informed 

 that window glass of a large size and good colour is now ready 



