Kinsale Spirit Co makes history with $100k NFT sale of rare whiskey cask

The money raised by the auction will be used to assist in establishing a new distillery near Summercove, Kinsale.

Kinsale Spirit Company described the cask - one of the few that remain from Cooley's original distillery in Co Louth - as a "rare piece of history".

The first ever whiskey cask in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT) has been auctioned by Kinsale Spirit Company.

The Cork distillery successfully auctioned the rare cask on OpenSea crypto marketplace, selling it for $100,000 (€83,000).