the 18th century · 1787 Faience, bricks and linenFajansa, tehly a plátno

In the eighteenth century the estate was held by the Krasnec, Podhorányi and Szirmay families, and somebody with capital tried something unusual for a place this size: a manufactory making faience — tin-glazed earthenware, the affordable answer to imported porcelain — together with a brickworks. Most people, though, wove linen and grew vegetables for sale, which is what a village with poor fields and a good road does. In 1787 Giraltovce had 74 houses and 646 inhabitants.V 18. storočí držali panstvo Krasnecovci, Podhorániovci a Sirmaiovci a niekto s kapitálom tu skúsil vec na obec tejto veľkosti nezvyčajnú: manufaktúru na fajansu — cínovo glazovanú keramiku, lacnejšiu odpoveď na dovážaný porcelán — a k tomu tehelňu. Väčšina ľudí však tkala plátno a pestovala zeleninu na predaj, čo je presne to, čo robí dedina s chudobnými poľami a dobrou cestou. Roku 1787 mali Giraltovce 74 domov a 646 obyvateľov.