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Oh, Interesting. I have two breweries marked on Ardee Street from the early 1800's. One is certainly Watkins, so maybe this was the other one!

What a fantastic list of equipment. <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) --> I want a cast iron sky cooler!

&amp;quot;Adeptus&amp;quot;:zqs5tify wrote: What a fantastic list of equipment. <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) --> I want a cast iron sky cooler![/quote:zqs5tify]

is that a variation on the cool ships (not shops!) used?

Apologies if you've mentioned this source before, but the Brewery History Society had an "Irish special" issue of its quarterly magazine 10 years ago - see details here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="www.breweryhistory.com/journal/archive/journalcontents.html">www.breweryhistory.com/journal/a ... tents.html
which contained a county-by-county gazeteer of Irish breweries.

Good sources for 20th century stuff are the pub industry trade magazines kept at the National Library - give yerself a larf and follow the debates as the small Irish pub-based bottlers tried to resist the arrival of filtering and pasteurisation of bottled beers and stouts in the late 1950s and early 1960s, ostensibly because the beer would taste worse (true) but in reality because they couldn't afford the new kit ... Barnard's Noted Breweries also features several of the Dublin and Cork brewers.

You can't beat ploughing through trade directories and back copies of newspapers for gathering info on vanished breweries, and both will often carry old ads which will tell you what beers they brewed. Visiting local libraries is also, of course, essential (and it's amazing what they sometimes have - the Dungarvan museum has a BEAUTIFUL old St Brigid's Well brewery mirror.

A couple of passing points while I think of them: the St Stephen's Green bwy was where UCD later was/now is, I believe - if my recall is correct, the Sweetmans bought it off the Leesons after whom Leeson Street is named (the Irish National Gallery had an exhibition six or eight years ago showing some of the loot the Leesons collected after their brewing-based wealth elevated them to the aristocracy). The Sweetmans had at least a couple of premises going at the same time at one point in Dublin, I think.

Deasy's of Clonakilty is ??still?? a mineral water manufacturer, and has (or had, when I was last in West Cork) a pic of the brewery on its bottle labels

Welcome to ICB, Zythophile, and thanks for the pointers.

I can't seem to find the Journal of the BHS anywhere local. Not even in Trinity, so it looks like you naughty brewery historians have not been submitting your mag under legal deposit. Any chance that article might find its way into a scanner somewhere in your vicinity?

I had a feeling that [i:2v0lfnlt]someone[/i:2v0lfnlt] would have done something like this before.

&amp;quot;TheBeerNut&amp;quot;:b7uuwrcd wrote: I had a feeling that [i:b7uuwrcd]someone[/i:b7uuwrcd] would have done something like this before.[/quote:b7uuwrcd]Are you saying I've just wasted two weeks worth of evenings? <!-- s:shock: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_eek.gif" alt=":shock:" title="Shocked" /><!-- s:shock: --> <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->

Thanks Zythophile. The Noted Breweries is actually winging it's way to me as I speak, so I can't wait to get a look.

We've been gathering all sorts of historical sources in the background (well, n1mbus has) about the Sweetman family, including them having a brewery at the corner of Stephen's Green and Harcourt Street before moving to Francis Street. It's interesting stuff. This started as a mapping project to keep me occupied in the evenings, but it seems to be growing legs! <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

&amp;quot;TheBeerNut&amp;quot;:urtmd4t5 wrote: Your very own turn-key Victorian brewery. Beat that, Silenus.[/quote:urtmd4t5]

I noticed this biulding a couple of years ago, and thanks to the property slump its still there.
But i seen some engineers on the site recenlty so it's probably on the way out. The only way to get a decent photo would be from the apartments opposite.
It would be a shame not to document it.

TBN ??