I have absolutely no idea at all what my ancestors were doing in 1782. I’m not sure that I care. In fact, perhaps it’s better that I don’t know.
But Jack and Stephen Teeling can tell you what Walter Teeling was doing. He was a distiller; one of thirty or so in The Liberties, then a vibrant part of Dublin and in the late eighteenth century arguably the distilling capital of the world (as it remained for many years afterward).
How wonderful then that his descendants have been able to establish their distillery within a few yards of where their...
