The Shed Distillery

A founder holding one station

The decision to keep the work in Drumshanbo has been the constant gesture: PJ Rigney, founder of The Shed Distillery in Drumshanbo, Ireland, began the role in 2014 and still holds it. In a trade that often scatters authorship across brands, addresses and consulting hands, his record is narrower and more legible. One distillery. One Irish location. One founder’s name attached to the practice over time.

That continuity is the lineage available here. The public record does not name a predecessor or an apprenticeship for Rigney at The Shed Distillery, so the page stays with the fact that can bear weight: he has carried the founder’s role from 2014 to the present. The station is not retrospective. It is current work, tied to Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim, and to a house whose identity remains bound to its maker rather than detached from him. The discipline is in the long hold, in returning to the same place and letting the work accrue there.

Variants within a single line

Rigney’s named signatures at The Shed Distillery include Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin with California Orange Citrus and Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin Italian Fig & Laurel Edition. The names matter because they mark the work by expression rather than by volume or scale. Each reads as a precise variant inside the same held framework, with the maker’s authorship still close enough to the label to be useful.

The house does not publish enough process detail here to describe the stills, cuts, botanicals, proofing, or any aging program with authority. That absence leaves the writing at the level of the known line: founded work, continued in place, with specific releases carrying the Drumshanbo name into distinct citrus, fig and laurel registers. For a distillery page, that restraint matters. The method should not be padded with borrowed trade language when the house has not put those particulars forward. What can be said is that Rigney’s practice is not presented as a loose portfolio; it remains centered on The Shed Distillery and its expressions from Drumshanbo.

The still house as fixed point

The useful texture of The Shed Distillery is its fixedness. The still house sits in Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim, and Rigney’s role has stayed there rather than moving into a chain of detached credits. Place is doing quiet work on the page: not as scenery, not as a tourism shorthand, but as the address that keeps the maker’s record coherent.

Inside that frame, the craft reads through continuity. Founder, distillery and town remain aligned. The room is not described here through visitor ritual or service detail, because the more serious subject is the station itself: a maker still connected to the house he began in 2014, with The Shed Distillery remaining the named center of PJ Rigney’s work.