- City
- Dublin
- Founded
- 1759
- Founder
- Arthur Guinness
- Water
- The Liffey
In 1759 a young Arthur Guinness travelled the few miles from Leixlip to a disused, ill-equipped brewery at St. James's Gate, on the western edge of Dublin. There he signed a lease so audacious it has become legend — nine thousand years at forty-five pounds a year — and began brewing on a site of barely four acres.
Within a few generations the gate had grown into one of the largest breweries on earth, drawing water along the city's channels, shipping by barge down the Liffey and employing thousands of Dubliners. Its iron gates, cooperage yards and tall chimneys became as much a part of the city's skyline as its cathedrals.
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