Tyrone Crystal

Glass-making and -decoration in County Tyrone can be dated back to the early medieval period, where Dunmisk outside Carrickmore was a centre for manufacture and provides the first evidence of glass work in Europe[1] Modern glass work dates to 1771, when Benjamin Edwards founded a company in County Tyrone, Ireland.

Trainees began practising on glass jars and bottles until they became skilled enough to make crystal on their own, and they set up a glass-blowing shop in Dungannon.

In 1988 the company was awarded an ISO 9000 for quality; the youngest glasshouse in Ireland or the U.K. to gain the recognised standard.

From 2005, Tyrone Crystal manufactured the trophy for the Canadian Grand Prix.

It is made out of embellished gold on metal and 2600 blown out crystal pieces.