Gloves are manufactured in some parts of Ireland.
What are called Limerick gloves arc made or the skins of calves taken from fat cows. Iron is not manufactured to any considerable extent at present ; though it appears, from bate, that, in the middle of the 17th century, there were several very large iron founderics and manufactories in various parts of Ireland. Hardware articles are manu factured in Dublin ; and reaping hooks, scythes, shears, and other coarse implements, at Carlow.
This country has long been celebrated for its distilleries. both legal and illegal. The latter prevail most in the north ern and north-western counties, and even in some of those to the south-west. The following table contains the num ber of unlicensed stills that were seized in the course of five years, from June 1802, to June 1806 : The number of fines imposed on Townlands for illicit dis tillation in the ) ear 1814 were 3555, and the amount of fines was 90,2101. The greatest number and amount were in the of Donegal (727), Cavan (501), Gaiway (363). Leitrim (326). and Sligo (304). The whole receipt of may on home-made spirits, co,stnned in Ireland, on an average of the year 1808 and 1809, was about 664,0311. ; whereas it is supposed, if duty had been paid on all the home-made spirits, it would have amounted to upwards of 2.280.0001. The principal licensed distilleries are estab lished at Limerick, Cork, Ross, Dublin, and Drogheda. In the year 1808, the largest distiller in the kingdom made 17,000 gallons of spirits per week, and worked his stills between nine and ten months in the year. Distillation was first cat vied on in the north, and has been introduced into the south only within these SO years. The following ta ble will farther illustrate the state of legal distillation in Ireland : Public breweries have been introduced into Ireland only within these few years. At present, the principal brew eries are at Cork, Fermanagh, Limerick, Waterford, Ros common, Dublin, Belfast, Cavan, Armagh, DonousOmore, Dungarvon, &c. Malt is prepared by the brewers them selves, and never purchased by maltsters. One of the largest breweries in Irclaml brews upwards of 100,C00 barrels per annum. The following Table shows the quail tity of malt used in the breweries and distilleries for SCVe rat years.
In the south of Ireland there is some cider made. That made in Clare is DI excellent quality it is manufactured from the cockagee apple, %vhich grows principally near a town in that county, called Six-mi:e•Biidge, nut far !tom the sea, and in a part of the country where frost and snow are unknown.
In consequence of w hcaten bread being more generally used than it was formerly, flour mills are mote common. When Mr. Young was in Ireland, between thirty and forty years ago, there were no flour-mills to the north of the la NCI' Bo)ne. ; now there are several. Armagh, Belfast, Derry, have mills ; but there are none to the north-west of Navan. They arc numerous and very large on the Black water, near Navan, some of which grind from 15,000 to 20,000 barrels per annum. Flour-mills abound in the south of Ireland.
In times of war, Ireland is distinguished for its extensive dealings in the provision trade. The principal part of this trade is confined to the city of Cork. During the last war, the average number of oxen slaughtered was about la,000, and of cows 8 000. In the time of the American war, the number of bullocks slaughtered in Ireland, annually, was 50,000; last war they were not nearly so many, principally arising from a greater number having been exported In 1807, 50.000 hogs were slaughtered in Cork. Bacon and hams are salted on an extensive scale, at Limerick, Clonmell, and Waterford. One half of the hides of the cattle slaughtered at Cork are exported ; the hoofs are al so exported, and made, at Birmingham, into snuffboxes. The horns ate made, in Ireland, into lanterns, combs, Sce. Glue is manufactured, at Limerick and Cork, from the ears, Ste. of bulls. A great deal of bone is concerted into ivoiy-black, particularly at Dublin. On the western coast, large quantities of kelp are made ; it is used by the Irish bleachers. There arc manufactories for making vitriol, muriatie acid, and Glauber's salts, at Lisburn, Belfast, and :Nloyallan At Dublin. Waterford, and Belfast, there arc glass manufactories. Sugar is refined at Dublin and Bel fast. There are salt works at Sligo and Dungarvon ; and Cheshire rock-salt is refined at Waterford.