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lency the Marquis of Wellesley. About 1828 John Kirkwood 

 became partner with Watt, and in the same year Watt retired and 

 Isaac M'Cune became a partner, the firm being then known as 

 Kirkwood and M'Cune. This firm carried on the business until 

 1837, when M'Cune went to Belfast and John Kirkwood carried 

 it on alone. 



In 1838 the concern was offered for sale as Kirkwood stated 

 he wished to remove to his extensive flint glass manufactory at 

 Rainhill near Liverpool. The sale, however, did not take place, 

 and Kirkwood continued as proprietor until 1847. 



In that year theNewry glass works were closed, and in October 

 the stock-in-trade was advertised for sale, thus terminating the 

 manufacture of glass in Newry. 



Although glass was made in fairly large quantities in Newry, 

 it was imported from Cork and Waterford, as proved by the follow- 

 ing advertisement which appeared in the Nezvry Examiner in the 

 years 1830 and 1833 : — "Anne Savage, North Street, Newry, is 

 supplied with an elegant assortment of cut flint glass, received from 

 the manufactories in Cork and Waterford." 



BALLYCASTLE. 



In 1755 a glass-house was erected at Ballycastle, Co. Antrim, 

 for the purpose of making bottles. Hugh Boyd appears to have 

 been the chief proprietor, and with him were associated Jackson 

 Wray, Laurence Cruise, James Urch, and John Magawly. On 

 November ist, 1755, Jackson Wray, Laurence Cruise, and James 

 Urch petitioned Parliament for aid to carry on the glass manufac- 

 acture at Ballycastle, and in February, 1756, it was resolved that 

 they deserved encouragement. 



The following notice referring to this glass-house appears in 

 the Dublin Journal for October 14th, 1755 : — " Ballycastle glass- 

 house and warehouse and all the materials thereunto belongmg 

 being now finished and ready to go to work, the public both in 

 Dublin and in all the Seaports in the kingdom may be served with 

 any quantity of bottles they please to bespeak. As vessels with 

 coal from thence may bring bottles to any seaport in the kingdom, 



