Jameson Experience

The Jameson Experience, Midleton is an Irish whiskey museum and visitor centre located inside the Old Midleton Distillery in Midleton, County Cork, Ireland. Set over 15 acres, due to the fact starting as a visitor's centre in 1992, the old distillery has received approximately 100,000 guests in line with yr, receiving a hundred twenty 5,000 in 2015. On 20 May 1796, Marcus Lynch leased land from Viscount Midleton, and having obtained rights to use the waters of the Dungourney River, Lynch in partnership with London merchants, erected a huge woolen mill Lynch later have become the sole proprietor of the premises following the bankruptcy of his companions.

In 1803, all through the Napoleonic Wars, this mill become bought by way of the Government for £20,000 and converted for uses as a barracks and stables, though part of the premises became leased again to Lynch. Eighteen years later with both Lynch and the barracks gone, the Government offered the constructing to Lord Middleton’s brother the Archbishop of Cashel for £1,750, a steep cut price on what they had paid for it. When the Archbishop died in 1824, Lord Midleton bought the belongings for the identical charge.