At this manufactory only the coarser kinds of fire-clay and terra-cotta goods—chimney-pots, flower-pots, vases, &c., are produced.
Youghal.
There was a manufactory of brown ware, for pitchers and common goods, at this place. It was of old foundation.
Larne.
Larne Pottery.—Pottery works were, I am informed by Mr. Patterson, built close to the small sea-port of Larne, county of Antrim, by James Agnew, Esq., the proprietor of the estate, and were worked under the management of his agent, Mr. Walker, from about 1850 to 1855, and afterwards for two or three years by the Greenock Pottery Company, since which time the works have been closed. The buildings still remain, but lie vacant. The goods produced were white and printed earthenware, cane ware, Rockingham tea-pots, and brown pans, crocks, and dairy and kitchen utensils of various kinds. Some of the latter named were made from local clays, and were very good of their kind. Their rubbish heaps are on the borders of Larne Lough, and the beach is strewed with fragments of pottery, the little triangular supports, saggars, &c.
Castle Espie Pottery.
At Castle Espie, near Comber, county of Down, Mr. Samuel Minland, J.P., some years ago, I am informed by Mr. Patterson, established brick and tile works. Common pottery is now manufactured there from the local red clay. The brown glazed ware consists of dairy vessels, tea-pots, flower vases, and other plain household articles.
Figs. 724 and 725.
Captain Beauclerc, at the exhibition of 1851, exhibited two terra-cotta vases, his own modelling, made in Ireland, of Irish material. They were engraved in the “Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue,” page 257, and are here reproduced, Figs. [724 and 725]. The productions were in two tints; the body of each vase being of a deep red, and the figures of a lighter and much yellower clay.