North Mall Distillery

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

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, 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 Distiller's other bottling facilities in Dublin. In the mid-2000s, much of the site was jointly acquired by University College Cork and Mercy University Hospital, and has now been redeveloped.

The exact origin of the distillery is uncertain, however, it is said to have been established in 1779 by two brothers, Thomas and Francis Wise. The distillery was located on the north banks of the River Lee, on the site of an old Dominican Friary known as the Abbey of St. Francis or the North Abbey. After its establishment, the distillery expanded rapidly, in particular, after the reform of the Distillation Act in 1823. In 1827, production was reported as just over 320,000 gallons, up from 312,000 gallons in 1821, and by 1833, had rise to some 400,000 gallons per annum.

In 1867, Francis Wise, a nephew and son of the aforementioned founders, sold the distillery to the Cork Distillers Company (CDC) which began as an amalgamation of four Cork distilleries: the North Mall, and three others: Daly's, the Green, and the Watercourse. A year later, in 1868, Murphy's Midleton Distillery also joined the CDC, bringing five Cork distilleries under common ownership.