North Mall Distillery

51°53′58.0″N 8°29′08.8″W / 51.899444°N 8.485778°W / 51.899444; -8.485778

North Mall Distillery
IndustryDistilled beverage
Founded1779
Defunct1920
FateDefunct
SuccessorCork Distillers Company,
Irish Distillers
Headquarters,
Ireland
Key people
Thomas and Francis Wise
ProductsIrish whiskey
BrandsWise Whiskey,
Wise's Cork Old Pot Still Whiskey
Number of employees
250

The North Mall Distillery was an Irish whiskey distillery located in Cork City, Ireland. In its day one of the most famous distilleries in Ireland,[1] the distillery was destroyed by a fire in 1920. Distilling operations never resumed at the North Mall after the fire, and it was later converted into a bottling and storage facility which was used by Irish Distillers until 2007, at which point operations were transferred to Irish Distillers' other bottling facilities in Dublin.[2] In the mid-2000s, much of the site was jointly acquired by University College Cork and Mercy University Hospital, and has since been redeveloped.[3]

  1. ^ Townsend, Brian (1997–1999). The Lost Distilleries of Ireland. Glasgow, Scotland: Neil Wilson Publishing. ISBN 1-897784-87-2.
  2. ^ "Irish Distillers to close Cork bottling plant". RTE News. 26 January 2007. Retrieved 20 December 2016 – via rte.ie.
  3. ^ "University and hospital buy land". The Irish Times. 24 July 2004. Retrieved 20 December 2016 – via irishtimes.com.