40 M. S. D. Mestropp on 



1773, in 1787 opened a shop in Patrick Street, Cork, where he had 

 a great variety of cut and engraved flint glass which, he stated he 

 himself saw made in Waterford. 



In February, 1785, the proprietors of the Cork Glass-house 

 stated that they had for sale every kind of bottles and squares of 

 as good a quality as ever imported or made in Ireland. In August 

 of the same year Francis Rowe, who was stated to have "a third 

 share in the two new glass-houses in Cork, one for white glass and 

 one for black glass," became bankrupt. About 1787 both Francis 

 Rowe and Tuomas Burnett appear to have retired from the 

 business which was then carried on by Atwell Hayes with Philip 

 Allen, as partner. In that year they obtained a permium from 

 the Dublin Society for their glass made during the year, and 

 valued at ;^i,6oo. 



In the Custom House books, preserved in the National 

 Library of Ireland, the exports of glass from Ireland are given from 

 1780 to 1823. Cork appears to have exported a good deal; for 

 example, in 1801 over 117,000 drinking glasses beside other glass 

 were valued at ;;^855 were sent chiefly to America and the West 

 Indies. In 1802, 6,129 dozens of bottles were exported to Spain 

 and nearly 40,000 drinking glasses to the West Indies. 



About 1 8 10 Smith, White & Co. appear as proprietors of the 

 Cork Glass-House. White retired in 1812, and from that year 

 until about 1818 the business was carried on under the name of 

 William Smith & Co. 



About 1 8 10 the name of Daniel Foley appears in Cork direct- 

 ories as the proprietor of a glass wareroom in Hanover Street, and 

 in 1815 he erected a glass-house in the immediate vicinity, under 

 the name of the Waterloo Glass-house Company, for making flint 

 and bottle glass. It is difficult to ascertain exactly where the 

 Waterloo Glass-house was situated; in the contemporary newspapers 

 and directories it is put down as being at Wandesford Quay, 

 Clarke's Bridge, and Wandesford Bridge Street. Probably it was 

 on the right bank of the south channel of the river, nearly opposite 

 the Hanover Street Glass-house. 



Daniel Foley & Co. had their warerooms in Hanover Street, 



