 The brand is named for historic Knappogue Castle in County Clare, Ireland, originally built by Clan MacNamara in 1467.Knappogue Castle is known for bottling one of the oldest and rarest known Irish whiskies, Knappogue Castle 1951, a pot still whiskey produced at the now-defunct B. Daly Distillery.In 1966, Mark Edwin Andrews and his wife Lavone´ purchased Knappogue Castle in County Clare.