Ancestral activity In 1782, Walter Teeling established a distillery on Dublin's Marrowbone Lane, in the Liberties area of Dublin, then an epicentre of distilling dubbed the "golden triangle" due to the number of distilleries located in the area. Eventually, the Teeling Distillery was purchased by a larger neighbouring operation,
William Jameson & Co., which was also based on Marrowbone Street. However, William Jameson's distillery, run by relatives of the more famous
John Jameson, later closed in 1923, having like many Irish distilleries, encountered serious financial difficulties in the early 20th century.
20th century In 1987, John Teeling, a descendant of Walter Teeling, purchased a facility in Cooley, County Louth which had previously been set up by the
Irish Free State Government to produce industrial alcohol from potatoes. Teeling converted this plant to a whiskey distillery, reopening it in 1989 as
Cooley Distillery. The distillery was the first new distillery to launch in Ireland following the consolidations and closures of the 20th century. John Teeling's two sons, Jack and Stephen, worked with their father at Cooley Distillery when it was sold to Beam Inc. (now
Suntory Global Spirits) in 2011. In 2015, the Teelings established a new whiskey distillery in Newmarket Square in Dublin's south inner city, not far from the location of the original Teeling Distillery on Marrowbone Lane. The distillery, which includes a visitor centre, café and shop, now employs some 55 staff, and exports to 44 countries. == Popular culture ==