| Country | ireland |
| Region | Dublin |
| Established | 1752 |
| Owner | William Jameson & Co (later Dublin Distilleries Company Ltd) |
| Type | Pot still (Irish whiskey) |
| Number of stills | 4 pot stills (20,000, 12,000, 11,000 and 9,000 gallon capacity) |
| Visitor center | No |
| Status | Closed |
| Phone | n/a |
Marrowbone Lane Distillery is a closed Irish pot still whiskey distillery that stood on Marrowbone Lane in the Liberties area of Dublin, Ireland. It was founded around 1752 and was closed in 1923 after more than a century and a half of production. At its peak it was the second-largest distillery in Dublin and a direct rival to the Bow Street distillery run by another branch of the same Jameson family.
The distillery on Marrowbone Lane dates to the early 1750s. It passed to the Stein family, distilling relations of the Jamesons and Haigs, around 1780, trading for a time as Jameson and Stein. William Jameson, a son of John Jameson of the famous Bow Street distillery, took control of the business, and by 1822 it operated under the name William Jameson & Co — a separate and competing firm from his father's, despite the shared surname.
Under the Jameson name the distillery grew into one of Dublin's major whiskey producers, covering around 14 acres by the 1880s. The Victorian chronicler Alfred Barnard recorded that its mash tuns, with a combined capacity of over 100,000 gallons, were said to be the largest in the United Kingdom at the time. The site operated four pot stills of 20,000, 12,000, 11,000 and 9,000 gallon capacity, employed around 200 workers including 30 coopers, and at its height produced roughly 900,000 gallons of pot still whiskey a year, sold under the "Dublin Whiskey" name and exported to Australia, Canada, India and the United States.
In 1891 William Jameson & Co merged with two other Dublin producers to form the Dublin Distilleries Company Ltd, though distilling continued at Marrowbone Lane under the established name. During the 1916 Easter Rising the distillery complex was occupied and held as a military strongpoint by more than a hundred rebel fighters, one of several garrison positions defended in the fighting around the South Dublin Union.
Marrowbone Lane Distillery closed in 1923, brought down by the broader collapse of the Dublin whiskey trade in the years following Irish independence — the loss of imperial export markets and the near-simultaneous onset of Prohibition in the United States, one of Irish pot still whiskey's largest overseas markets, left the business unable to continue. The distillery did not reopen, and no trace of large-scale whiskey production survives on the site today; the Liberties district it once anchored, alongside Guinness's nearby St James's Gate brewery, was for centuries one of Dublin's principal centres of distilling and brewing. Because production ended over a century ago and volumes even at its Victorian peak were modest by today's standards, surviving bottles of William Jameson & Co and "Dublin Whiskey" are now genuine rarities, sought by collectors of historic Irish pot still whiskey.
Marrowbone Lane (William Jameson & Co) distillery is located at Marrowbone Lane, Dublin 8, Ireland.
Marrowbone Lane (William Jameson & Co) distillery was founded in 1752.
Marrowbone Lane (William Jameson & Co) distillery is owned by William Jameson & Co (later Dublin Distilleries Company Ltd).
Marrowbone Lane (William Jameson & Co) distillery is from Dublin, ireland.
You can buy Marrowbone Lane (William Jameson & Co) whisky at Glenbotal.co.uk. We currently stock a selection with free UK delivery on orders over £99.
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