The Pearse Lyons Whiskey Distillery is defined by a gleaming glass steeple that rises above the stone walls of a former eighteenth-century church. Located in the Liberties district, this building once served as St. James’s Church, a site…
Liberties Brewing and Whiskey
Dublin's historic Southwest is built on the legacies of legendary brewers and distillers who shaped the city's working-class character. This self-guided walk leads you past the red-brick homes of Guinness workers, soaring industrial chimneys, and the pioneering distilleries bringing craft spirits back to the Liberties.
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1. Pearse Lyons Whiskey Distillery
2. Guinness Storehouse
The Guinness Storehouse is a seven-story building with a distinctive glass atrium shaped like a giant pint glass at its center. Constructed between nineteen oh two and nineteen oh four in the style of the Chicago School of Architecture, it…
3. Roe & Co Distillery
The Roe and Co Distillery is a sturdy, redoubtable block of an art-deco building with three prominent chimneys. Once the power station for the nearby Guinness Brewery, the site was repurposed and opened as a working whiskey distillery in…
4. Arthur Guinness Dwelling House
The house at number one Thomas Street stands as a direct link to the early days of the Guinness brewing empire. Built by Arthur Guinness in seventeen ninety-nine, this Georgian townhouse was designed with a practical purpose: it sat just…
5. St Patrick's Tower at The Digital Hub
St Patrick's Tower is a tall, eight-story brick windmill that tapers toward a green copper dome. You can identify the structure by the weathervane shaped like Saint Patrick, complete with a mitre and crozier, which sits atop that dome.…
6. Teeling Whiskey Distillery
The Teeling Whiskey Distillery is marked by the image of a phoenix rising from a pot still, a symbol chosen by the founders to represent the revival of whiskey production in Dublin. This distillery opened in two thousand fifteen within the…
7. The Dublin Liberties Distillery
The Dublin Liberties Distillery stands on Mill Street within a four-hundred-year-old stone-and-brick building that once operated as a mill and a tannery. The structure is part of the Liberties, a neighborhood once known as Hell, which…
8. The Iveagh Trust
The Iveagh Trust is defined by its substantial, red brick residential blocks, which stand as a prominent feature of the Liberties area. Founded in eighteen ninety by Sir Edward Cecil Guinness, later the first Earl of Iveagh, the…