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Sirocco Works is a Georgian glassworks situated in Belfast, Northern Ireland, occupying land underlain by Sherwood Sandstone Group bedrock. This geological foundation, comprising sandstone, siltstone and mudstone deposited during the Ladinian period, provided a stable base for the intensive industrial operations conducted here during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The works represents an important phase in Belfast's development as an industrial centre during the Georgian and early Victorian periods. Glass manufacture was a capital-intensive enterprise requiring sustained heat and skilled labour, reflecting the growing prosperity and commercial ambition of the city during this era. The site's location within Belfast indicates the expansion of productive industries beyond traditional craft sectors.
The Sirocco Works is protected by the Historic Environment Division under reference 6270, recognising its significance to the material heritage of industrial Belfast. The survival of such sites, even in fragmentary form, provides archaeological and architectural evidence of manufacturing processes, workforce organisation and technological change in early modern Irish industry.
Sirocco works. georgian glassworks is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 6270. View the official record →
Sirocco Works is a Georgian glassworks situated in Belfast, Northern Ireland, occupying land underlain by Sherwood Sandstone Group bedrock. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 6270.
Sirocco works. georgian glassworks dates from the c18th/c19th period, and is classified as a glass works. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Sirocco works. georgian glassworks is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 6270.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Belvoir park mound. motte (4.6 km), Rath (5.4 km), Platform rath (5.7 km).
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Sirocco works. georgian glassworks stands on Sherwood Sandstone Group, bedrock that formed in the Ladinian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.