School: An Currach Glas, Tulach an Iarainn (roll number 12382)
- Location:
- Curraglass, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Bhriain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0380, Page 266
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- There was a glass factory about a mile from Curraglass, on the old road to Tallow, about the beginning of the sixteenth century but owing to the trouble state of the times the factory had to close down.
The factory was again working in the beginning of the seventeenth century when it was leased by the Earl of Cork to a man named either Hawes or Bowles who lived at Mount Prospect. There was great business carried on there, while the factory was at work but it is said that when Cromwell came to Ireland he destroyed this factory.
No trace or sign is now to be had but the road is still known as the Glasshouse road.
- Collector
- Mary Barry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisnabrin South, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr William Barry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Lisnabrin South, Co. Cork
