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shop in Marlborough Street and a glass-house at Ringsend. 

 Perhaps he took over Pring's glass-house as in the advertisement 

 he thanks the public for support since he purchased this old 

 establishment. 



In maps of Dublin made in 1819 and in 1823 a glass-house 

 is marked on the East Wall not far from Annesley Bridge. This 

 may be the Dublin Glass Company, North Wall, which in 1832 

 advertised quart and pint wide bottles, porter bottles, and every 

 description of green glass bottles; and in the Royal Dublin 

 Society's exhibition in 1850 exhibited half gallon, quart, pint, egg- 

 shaped and flat bottomed bottles in black, green, and amber glass. 



Pring's glass-house was afterwards known as the Ringsend 

 Bottle Company, and in the Cork Exhibition of 1883 exhibited 

 black and white glass bottles. Three other glass bottle companies 

 also had exhibits, viz. : — The Irish Glass Bottle Company, Char- 

 lotte Quay ; The Dublin Glass Bottle Company, North Lotts ] and 

 Alexander Brown & Son, 175 Church Street. 



At the present day there are five glass bottle manufactories in 

 Dublin, all at Ringsend. No flint glass, however, is made. 



WATERFORD. 



The earliest record of a glass-house connected with Waterford 

 occurs in 1729. Probably the year before one was erected within 

 a few miles of the town on the banks of the Suir, at a place called 

 Gurteens. Although practically belonging to Waterford, the glass- 

 house was really in County Kilkenny. 



Two or three advertisements relating to this glass factory are 

 to be found in the Dublin Journal. In May, 1729, it is stated 

 that "the Glass House near Waterford is now at work, and all 

 persons may be supplied with all sorts of flint glasses, double and 

 single, and also garden glasses, vials, and other green glass ware, 

 to be sold at seasonable rates by Joseph Harris " ; and in 

 November, 1731, that "the glass-house near Waterford, belonging 

 to John Head, Esq., has been at work for some time, where all 

 gentlemen and others may be supplied with bottles with or without 

 marks, or at the warehouse in Waterford. There will also soon 



