[2] It is now a visitors centre that provides guided tours, tutored whiskey tastings, JJs bar and a gift shop.

John Jameson took full ownership (he was previously the general manager) and expanded the distillery in 1805.

By 1810, the operation was officially renamed to John Jameson & Son’s Bow Street Distillery.

The distillery also housed a smithy, cooperage, saw mills, engineers, carpenters, painters and coppersmiths’ shops.

[2] Following a difficult period that included American Prohibition, Ireland’s trade war with Great Britain, and the introduction of Scotch blended whiskey, the Jameson distillery fell on hard times and decided to form the Irish Distillers Group with their previous rivals, the Cork Distilleries Company and John Power & Son in 1966.