History of owners in the 19th century:
After the Sligo distillery on Riverside ceased trading in 1845, Abraham Martin leased the distillery buildings to Alderman Jeremiah O’Donovan, where it continued as a distillery. In Slater’s commercial trade directory from 1846, brothers Jeremiah and John O’Donovan are listed as Distillers at the Sligo Distillery. They ran it for a few years and by 1852, Jeremiah had put an advertisement in the local newspaper, and had started to sell off the distillery equipment and by 1854, after Abraham Martin had passed away, his son and heir, Captain Martin, put the property up for public auction. The distillery buildings were then bought by Robert Culbertson, who also owned the Sligo Mills at Ballysadare, County Sligo. By 1862, Robert Culbertson had died and the distillery buildings passed to his wife Agnes Culbertson and their son, Robert Spencer Culbertson.
The old distillery buildings continued in use, the buildings catering to various other businesses for the next 140 years. Although some of the warehouses on the site, which had been used as a corn mill, stores, and malt house, were demolished over the years, the original site remained mostly unchanged up to the Riverside development in 1998.
In the 1950s, the main distillery building was used as a Cold Storage business and then in the last 20 years before the site was levelled in the late 1990s, businesses in operation on the old distillery site, ranging from a bicycle repair workshop, motor factors business, garage, and the original distillery building was then used as tools and equipment storage business.