Kilbeggan
Kilbeggan ( Irish : Cill Bheagáin ) is a small town with 822 inhabitants (2006) in County Westmeath north of Tullamore in the Republic of Ireland . Today it is also known as whiskey town.
history
Traces of prehistoric times can be found in the Newtownlow Crannóg .
In the year 600 a monastery was founded by St. Becan and after the decay around 1200 it was rebuilt by the Cistercians from Mellifont ( Kilbeggan Abbey ). With the dissolution of the monasteries in Ireland in the 16th century, much of the property fell to the Lambert family.
In 1757 the Brunsna Distillery was opened in Kilbeggan . A branch of the Grand Canal (Ireland) from Tullamore was in operation from 1835 to 1944. Around 1860, John Locke took over the local whiskey distillery and renamed it John Locke & Co. to. The Locke's brand quickly became internationally known, but lost its reputation in America due to counterfeiters in the times of prohibition. In 1953 the distillery closed. In 1987 the Cooley Distillery bought the rights to this distillery and its whiskey. In 2007, in the year of the 250th anniversary, the distillery was resumed. This makes it the oldest licensed whiskey distillery in the world.
Some of the old buildings now serve as barrel storage for Kilbeggan , Locke's and Connemara whiskeys . The Locke's Distillery Museum can also be visited. In the old, disused distillery, the historical facilities are shown and information about the history of the whiskey is given.
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- ^ Gilbert Delos: Les Whiskeys du Monde. Translation from French: Karin-Jutta Hofmann: Whiskey from all over the world. Karl Müller, Erlangen 1998, ISBN 3-86070-442-7 , p. 122 f.
- ↑ Kilbeggan. Retrieved September 15, 2017 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ N , 7 ° 30 ′ W