Longcase Clocks from Ireland ©
A Dublin clock in mahogany by Shean Houston with an architectural pediment and blind fret frieze work. Later dial style.
A Dublin clock in mahogany by Joshua Tomey with swan neck pediment terminating in rosettes and convex frieze decorated with foliage and a central lion's head. The dial is plain by early 18th century standards with little engraving and no half-hour or half-quarter markers.
An Ulster clock by the very well-known maker John Birnie of Templepatrick. It is unclear if this was made by John Senior or his son John Junior. It is said they both made clocks with earlier 18th features. Note the style of the dial engraving similar to other Ulster clocks.
A painted dial clock by William Ross of Cork. The combination of a break-arch dial, hatched satinwood inlay and the door shape strongly suggest a Cork origin for this Ross clock case. Another clock by William Ross shows several Cork features worth noting (see Figure 16). There were probably two makers of this name in Cork the first of whom was active c.1764-1769. The second a relative perhaps, was active just as the brass dial period was drawing to a close and painted dials werer coming into fashion. He was at Grand Parade in 1787 and later at South Mall.
