a 6 M. S. £>. Westropp on 



for sale at the Rinp;send crown glass factory. It is hoped that an 

 impartial trial will be given, and it is presumed that it will be 

 found, if not superior, at least equal to the majority of the glass 

 imported into this city. Any commands for the glass-house 

 received at John Raper's window glass warehouse, 21 Lower 

 Exchange Street." No other reference to this glass-house has as 

 yet been found, but it may have been taken over later by some of 

 the glass-house proprietors at Ringsend. 



John D. Ayckbown, a London cut glass manufacturer, whose 

 name appears in Dublin directories from about 1783 to 1820 as a 

 glass seller at 15 Grafton Street, advertises in 1800 as the 

 proprietor of the " New Venice glass and crystal manufacture " on 

 the Blackrock Road near the canal. He states that he is ready to 

 take orders in all the different branches of glass making, and that 

 the warehouse in Grafton Street will be constantly supplied with 

 the greatest quantity of lustres, table and drinking glasses, etc. 



It is said that a glass factory formerly stood near the village 

 of Donnybrook, but whether this was Ayckbown's glass-house is 

 uncertain. 



The name of James Donovan appears in Dublin directories 

 from about 1770 as a glass and china merchant on George's Quay 

 and in Poolbeg Street, and from 1818 to 1829 James Donovan, 

 Junior, had a glass-house in Richard Street, Ringsend. 



There are the names of several glass manufacturers in Ring- 

 send mentioned in Dublin directories of the first half of the 

 nineteenth century. Martin- Crean & Co., appear as flint glass 

 makers at 6 Lower Abbey Street and Fitzwilliam Street, Ringsend, 

 from about 182 1 to 1835 ; Elijah Pring at 3 Marlborough Street 

 from about 1838 to 1842, and at Fitzwilliam Quay, Ringsend, in 

 1843 ; the Rev. Dr. John Prior in 1838 at Fitzwilliam Quay, 

 Ringsend, and a Samuel Davis, window glass maker, is said to 

 have had Pring's glass-house at Ringsend about 1848. From 1844 

 the name of William White, who is said to have been Pring's clerk, 

 appears as a glass manufacturer, but according to Richard Pugh he 

 never made any glass but was simply a seller. In directories of 

 1845 and 1846 advertisements of his appear, with a picture of his 



