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Edward Ronayne alone, who stated that he would make glass 

 of the most perfect and brilliant metal, ornamentally cut and 

 engraved to order or pattern. He did not continue the business 

 long, for in 1841 the works were closed, and the following notice 

 appears in the Cork Southern Reporter for September 14th, 1841 : 

 — " The old established Terrace Glass Works, Cork. To be let 

 the old established glass works, warerooms, and concerns at the 

 South Terrace in the city of Cork, subject to redemption ; with 

 the following articles the exclusive property of the lessors, namely, 

 steam engine, tools and apparatus for turning for forty glass 

 cutters ; an excellent clay mill attached thereto, and a large 

 quantity of pot clay, fire brick, from fifty to sixty glass house iron 

 pans, and all other necessary materials for the immediate working 

 of the concern. Cork is decidedly the best position in the United 

 Kingdom for a glass manufactory, by reason of its long known 

 character for superior glass and the vast extent of home trade and 

 its large exports to foreign markets." 



No one appears to have taken on the concern, and with the 

 closing of this factory the glass manufacture in Cork ceased, 

 having lasted nearly sixty years. 



NEWRY. 



The manufacture of flint glass was introduced into Newry 

 probably between 1780 and 1790; but the earliest notice I have 

 found of glass having been made there occurs in the year 1792. 



In the Newry Chronicle of October 22nd, 1793, the following 

 notice appears : — " Newry Flint Glass Manufactory. Emanuel 

 Quin & Co. have pleasure in acquainting their friends and the 

 public that they have now ready for sale at their glass-house in 

 William Street a great variety of flint glass work, both cut and plain^ 

 which they are determined to sell at the most reduced price, and will 

 give every encouragement to those who buy to sell again. They will 

 have a constant supply of tobacco pipes of their own manufacture.'' 



In the Custom House books preserved in the National 

 Library of Ireland, Newry is entered as exporting small quantities 

 of glass to Carolina in 1785 and 1790. 



