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Tyrconnell Irish Whiskey was originally
distilled at the Abbey Street
Distillery, Londonderry in the North of
Ireland.
The distillery was founded
in 1820 by Alexander Stuart and had a
proud tradition of producing good
whiskies. This was due to Derry’s
suitability for whiskey production on a
major scale with copious supplies of
good clean water and excellent local
barley combined with the Derry mills to
grind malt placed the distillery in an
advantageous position.
 The Watt family, a local wine and spirit
merchant established in 1762, was to
become a major influence in the area
when Andrew Watt purchased the Abbey
street distillery in 1830. Around the
same time they also bought the Waterside
Distillery also located in the Abbey
Street area.
In 1833 the Watt family decided to
install a Coffey still which was
personally installed under the
supervision of Aeneas Coffey. The
installation of the new Coffey Still was
so successful they then installed a
second Coffey still making the Abbey
Street distillery the largest distillery
in Ireland, capable of producing
2,000,000 gallons of whiskey per year.
Andrew A Watts enjoyed great success in
the export sector. Sales in England,
Canada, Australia, Nigeria, The West
Indies and the US put Derry on the
commercial map of the world. The
Tyrconnell was their flagship brand
which was, before prohibition, one of
the biggest selling whiskey brands in
the United States.
By the turn of the century Watt
amalgamated his interest with two other
Belfast distilleries to form United
Distillers Company. Things worked
perfectly leveraging on their economies
of scale until conflict arose between
UDC and Scottish giants DCL based in
Edinburgh. This was the beginning of the
end for the huge Derry operation and
Andrew Watt was forced to close the
doors in 1925.
The brands remained dormant till 1988
when Cooley Distillery acquired this old
brand and went on its way to bringing
this historical Irish whiskey brand back
to life.
This historic whiskey brand has been
kept alive by Cooley Distillery the only
independent distillery in Ireland who
has maintained the Tyrconnell reputation as
shown by the numerous awards it has
picked up since Cooley revived it. The
Tyrconnell has been embraced by whiskey
lovers around the world (including the
US again) and is the fastest growing
Irish Single Malt.
If you only get the chance to try one
Tyrconnell whiskey make it the the
Tyrconnell 10 year old Madeira Finish,
in our opinion it is one of the best
Madeira finished single malts you will
find anywhere.
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