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Powerscourt distillery is housed in an old mill house, situated beside the world famous Powerscourt gardens.Lough Mask Distillery
Lough Mask Distillery located on the shores of a beautiful lake, in county Mayo.
Rademon Distillery
Rademon Distillery in the stunning Rademon Estate in county Down. [Read more…] about Rademon Distillery
Glendalough Distillery
Glendalough distillery near the deep, glacial valley nestled in the Wicklow Mountains.
Ballykeefe Distillery
Ballykeefe Distillery is situated in the heartland of Ireland, adjacent to its medieval capital, Kilkenny city.
Connacht Distillery
The Connacht Distillery in the wilds of county Mayo.
The Connacht Distillery sits on the banks of the beautiful River Moy, in the ruggedly wild and beautiful county Mayo. It sits just outside the charming town of Ballina, on the site of the old Duffy family bakery. From bread to whiskey this site has always had a true Irish aroma about it. Here a dream held by the Stapletons, three American and one Irish came into fruition. The Stapeltons wished to bring distilling back to one of the most natural and unspoiled regions of Ireland.
The Stills
Robert Cassell, their master distiller and co-founder, custom designed their stills in order to create the essence from the west; which once tried, the memories from this liquid last. Connacht is very active distillery from once the grain is delivered they are busy preparing their mash to then fermenting, distilling, maturing and finally bottling their liquid gold. It has been more than a hundred years since the west distilled pot still and single malt whiskey’s. The Connacht distillery has the unique coastal location to mature their wild whiskey’s giving a beautiful tone to their whiskey.
Visitors Centre
As like many, they have a visitors centre where you can start your interactive tour. After which you can taste though their selection of spirits in their custom built bar. A bar which was hand-crafted from re-purposed timber flooring from Dublin’s Boland Mills. These historic floors, upon which our Irish patriots stood and battled British soldiers during the 1916 Easter Rising; thus bringing a little extra Irish history to their distillery; Ireland’s Taoiseach and local Mayo man Enda Kenny offically opened the distillery in October 2015. “I am delighted that the craft of whiskey-making is returning to the West of Ireland” Enda kenny.
Sláinte agus go n-éirí an bóthar leat!
The Connacht Distillery Whiskey Collection.
Echlinville Distillery
Echlinville Distillery on the Ards peninsula in county Down
Echlinville is the first licensed whiskey distillery in Northern Ireland in over 125 years. This distillery is nestled beside the sea on the Ards peninsula, giving them a very unique terrior, and micro-climate. Founded by locals who have been farming the land for centuries. They have the unique perspective for the design and future styles for their whiskey. Giving Echlinville the ability to produce a whiskey with a truly distinctive character and flavour. [Read more…] about Echlinville Distillery
The Shed Distillery
The Shed Distillery In Deepest Rural Ireland
The Shed distillery is much more than it sounds, located in the North West of Ireland, in county Leitrim, on the edge of Lough Allen at the foot of Sliabh An Iarainn mountains. This spectacular backdrop of the wild and rugged west was deemed the perfect location by owners PJ and Denise Rigney.
In 2014 The Shed Distillery opened, it was the first distillery to open in Connacht in over a hundred and one years. Opening in a little unknown village of Drumshanbo county Leitrim, with a mere eight hundred residents.