In designing the Cooper Tankard for Cashs Ireland, Martin Croke invokes the memory of the craftsmen and the part they played in Waterford Ireland's history.
When the Vikings invaded Waterford they appreciated its strategic value as a major trading port for goods and merchandise, a role it continues to play to this day. A lot of goods both dry and wet were shipped by barrel and a healthy barrel making industry developed in the Waterford area.
Barrel makers or coopers as the trade was known continued their craft right up to the twentieth century before they were overtaken by modern technology.

Cooper pattern is hand cut in Country Waterford by the Cashs Ireland, Master Artisans, renowned worldwide as the finest practitioners of the ancient art of glass-cutting. Each piece of crystal is individually marked, cut and checked by a master of the craft. This combination of artistry, skill, and craft guarantees that Cashs Ireland, is unique, precious, timeless and truly Irish. Two horizontal bands of tight diamond cutting represent the metal hoops that bind a barrel holding it secure. Placed between these are long and short upright cuts denoting the wooden staves from which the barrel is formed.

Designed in Waterford, Ireland.