on the outstanding balance, all in all a substantial return for Barrett's eight years involvement with the partnership. Following his exit from the partnership, the name Beamish and Crawford became associated with the firm, though they continued to trade as Cork Porter Brewery. The brewery underwent eight years of steady growth, going from having produced 12,003 barrels of porter in 1793, to 63,230 barrels in 1800. The profit in 1800 was £10,088, and was split equally between Beamish and Crawford — as part of the original agreement signed in 1792, all of the profits of the initial seven years of business were reinvested in the firm. From the passing of the Act of Union in 1800 to William Beamish's death in 1828, the Cork Porter Brewery was Ireland's leading brewery, and one of the largest in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Following William Beamish's death, his third son, Francis Bernard Beamish, took his place as acting partner in the firm. In 1834, William Crawford Jr succeeded his father as acting partner on behalf of the Crawford family. The brewery prospered, and by 1805 it had become the largest brewery in Ireland and the third largest in the then United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as a whole. In 1805, its output was 100,000 barrels per annum — up from 12,000 barrels in 1792. It remained the largest brewery in Ireland until overtaken by Guinness in 1833. A result of the popularity of Father Theobald Matthew's temperance movement (which unlike previous temperance movements, aimed at teetotalism rather than only the avoidance of spirits), Beamish and Crawford experienced a steady decline in sales between 1839 and 1843. Father Matthew's campaign was at its peak between 1837 and 1843, and beer output in Ireland fell from over a million barrels per annum, to roughly half that number. Between the years 1839 and 1843, Beamish and Crawford matched that trend, decreasing from an output of 63,031 barrels in 1839 to 32,848 in 1843. Following the decline of the temperance movement, Beamish and Crawford sales began to increase, though it is expected that the company would have experienced much greater growth but for the effects of the Great Famine, which began in 1845. Though were unaffected by the famine contemporaneously (the brewery actually reporting an increase in sales in the period through to 1848), the following economic impact of the famine