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Hibernia Mills, Dublin

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of Kilmainham, Dublin

1852 Advertisement: 'HIBERNIA MILLS, KILMAINHAM, Adjoining the City of Dublin.
Most Important Sale of Valuable MACHINERY for Manufacturing, Finishing, and Dyeing Woollen Cloths; newly erected and powerful Metallic Water-wheel; Steam Engine and two Boilers; Mill Gearing. Shafting, &c. &c.

'M. W. KIRK is honoured with the Instructions from the Proprietors of the Hibernia Mills, Kilmainham, adjoining the city of Dublin, to prepare for SALE BY AUCTION, on MONDAY and TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4th and 5th. 1852, all the valuable Woollen Machinery, Copper, Lead, and other Dye Vats, Utensils, &c, in the said Mills and Premises, vlz.: One fifteen-horse condensing Steam Engine, 24in. cylinder, 4ft. Stroke, by Peel, Williams, and Peel, Soho Foundry, Manchester; one waggon Boiler, 18ft 6in by 6ft; one ditto, 18ft. by 5ft; large and powerful Metallic Water-wbeel, 22ft 6in diameter, with metal cistern, sluice gates, gearing, &c., by Barrington and Company, Ringsend Iron Works, Dublin; one small Water-wheel, with gates, gearing frames, &c.; all the upright and line Shafting, with pulleys, bevil, and spur wheel, &c. The Machinery embraces—One Willow, one Wool Teaser, 4 Scribbling Engines, 60in on the wire, with rollers and clearers; ditto, 48in on the wire, with ditto; five Carding Engines, 30in on the wire, with rollers and clearers; one waterpower Slubbing Billey, 119 Spindles; three hand-power Slubbing Billeys, 158 spindles ; one hand Spinning Mule, eighty spindles ; pair ditto, witb driving apparatus ; forty-three Hand-looms ; six Gig Mills, with gearing, shafting, &c ; quantity spare Teazle Frames; three Napping Engines, with drums, pulleys, &c.; five Brushing Machines, with driving motions ; nine Shearing Knives, with driving apparatus; one Knife-grinding Slide Lathe ; one Pusher; one Washing and Scouring Machine, with driving apparatus; four Dutch Milling Stocks, or Fullers, with gearing, &c.; three Milling Stocks, or Fullers, with cast-iron beaks, tappet wheels, gearing. &c., by Lumb, Leeds; three ditto,ditto, by Kilburn, Leeds; one Indigo Mill, one Iron Pan, for scouring Wool; one Lead Dye Pan, with copper bottom, 4ft deep by 4ft wide; one Copper Dye Pan, ......
Full particulars in catalogues, which are being prepared, and may had the week before the Sale, at the offices of Messrs. Carmichael and Willans, 87, Stephen's-green, Dublin, where statement of title of the premises can be seen; O. Willans, Esq., 337, Strand, London ; or the Auctioneer, 24, Princess-street, Manchester, by post, on receipt of four stamps.' [1]


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  1. Dublin Evening Mail, 27 September 1852