Oxmantown Foundry
Oxmantown Foundry, at North King Street, Dublin
1876 The Hammersmith foundry closed, and work was transferred to Oxmantown.
1881 William Turner carried on the business after his father (Richard Turner) died in 1881, and continued until his own death in 1888. The Oxmantown foundry then closed.[1]
1888 Business for sale. 'TO IRON FOUNDERS. BUILDERS, AND OTHERS. OXMANTOWN FOUNDRY. NORTH KING STREET. EXECUTOR’S SALE. WILLIAM TURNER, Esq., DECEASED. SALE BY AUCTION. On WEDNESDAY NEXT. November. 1888, ENTIRE MACHINERY AND PLANT this well known IRON FOUNDRY,. Including— A builder's derrick, with slide racks and chains to lift 5 tons; foundry cranes; 16 hp engine and boiler, shafting and connections; 2 large steam wheel lathes; 2 smaller do. punching and drilling machines, a cart weighing machine, quite new. to weigh 3 tons; anvils, garden vases, stoves, stable fittings, rain water fittings, such as down pipes, gutters, &c; also boilers, half-hundred weights, meal pillars, models of green houses, iron and wooden patterns, and a vast quantity of iron and metal.'[2]