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City Limerick Foundry

From Graces Guide

Originally established as the High Street Foundry by Harrison Lee

1840 Selling quarry tools, threshing machines, winnowing machines, turnip cutters, boilers, field and garden rollers, steamers and horse ploughs.[1]

1841 Name changed to City Limerick Foundry. Advertising bells and pumps of all sizes and dimensions.[2]

1841 Harrison Lee was commissioned to cast the gates and railings of St Mary's Cathedral on Bridge Street.[3]

1843 Harrison Lee was manufacturing steam engines to his own design.[4]

1848 Advertised a variety of products that included a range of bells suitable for church, chapel or farming use.[5]

c1849 See Harrison Lee and Sons

    • Note: Limerick Museum displays a church bell made by the foundry in 1863.

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. Limerick Chronicle 22 July 1840
  2. Limerick Chronicle 31 July 1841
  3. Lee, David & Jacobs, Debbie (eds.), James Pain Architect, Limerick Civic Trust, Limerick, 2005, p. 330.
  4. Limerick Chronicle 5 August 1843
  5. Limerick Chronicle 12 August 1848
  • Limerick Iron Foundries 1806-1989 (Unpublished article) by Patrick McDonnell Nov 2008 – May 2010