Portmagee Whiskey is more than a spirit brand – it’s a visitor experience rooted in one of Ireland’s most iconic coastal communities. Based in the iconic looking Portmagee Domes in the village of Portmagee, Co. Kerry, it supports local tourism by giving travellers a reason to stay longer: tasting-led storytelling, a strong sense of place, and a natural link to the wider Skellig Coast experience. It adds a distinctive stop that helps drive year-round footfall and keeps value within the community.
Sustainability underpins that mission. Portmagee Whiskey has planted native Irish woodland, helped protect local Intangible Cultural Heritage through the tradition of seine boats, and engages fully with leading sustainability programmes including Origin Green and the Sustainable Tourism Network (STN). The result is a premium whiskey experience that balances welcome and authenticity with long-term care for place, people, and culture.
Our people are passionate and proud of Portmagee and together we seek to grow in harmony with our village, providing opportunity and adventure for future generations of our community. Portmagee Whiskey’s plans don’t end with the completion of our distillery experience and visitor centre.
Our Top Tip: Do the next best thing you can do, action is better than dreaming.
Our Proudest Sustainability Achievement: Planting the native Irish woodlands and achieving Intangible Cultural Heritage status for our local Seine Boats as these actions will outlast our time on the planet and were the right thing to do.
Barrack Hill
Doory
Portmagee
Co. Kerry
V23 V295
Ireland
Discount options available for tour groups booked as part of the Network.
Discount options also available for whiskey purchases as gift options as part of the Network.
At Portmagee Whiskey. our core values are:
● Respect – For one another, our history, our community and our environment.
● Loyalty – To each other and to Portmagee as a village community.
● Integrity – To do the right thing always, even when it is hard to do it.
● Adventure – To create and promote opportunities for adventure for people to enjoy.
● Community – To provide opportunities and support to our community so that it may thrive into the future.
We believe in Portmagee as a special place and our home which informs our mission to make Portmagee a better place and a home to live in.
Portmagee Whiskey offer four different tour options including:
They also offer bespoke tour options and event space rental with their third Geodesic Dome.
They sell three different whiskey expressions on the market, all finished in a Barbados Rum cask finished whiskey celebrating their villages origin story as a smuggling haven under the notorious Captain Theobald Magee.
Portmagee Whiskey currently hold the chair positions of both the Skellig Coast Tourism Network and the Portmagee Regatta Committee. They are actively involved in the Portmagee Development Group, Portmagee Tidy Towns, the Portmagee New Year’s Night Celebration, the Portmagee Comedy Festival, and the local Cnuícin Rowing Club. They also organise and are the main hosts of the annual May the 4th Sci-Fi Film Festival on the Skellig Coast. In addition, they lead a Native Irish Woodland Planting Project to boost biodiversity and habitat restoration, and they support the protection of the local seine boat tradition as recognised Intangible Cultural Heritage.
