Ardbeg (

Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic ( gd, Gàidhlig ), also known as Scots Gaelic and Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as ...

: An Àird Bheag) is a small settlement on southern coast of the island of

Islay Islay ( ; gd, Ìle, sco, Ila) is the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. Known as "The Queen of the Hebrides", it lies in Argyll just south west of Jura, Scotland, Jura and around north of the Northern Irish coast. The isl ...

off the west coast of

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

. It is around east of

Port Ellen Port Ellen ( gd, Port Ìlein) is a small town on the island of Islay, in Argyll, Scotland. The town is named after the wife of its founder, Walter Frederick Campbell. Its previous name, ''Leòdamas'', is derived from Old Norse meaning "Leòd's Ha ...

and northeast of

Lagavulin Lagavulin ( gd, Lag a' Mhuilinn, "hollow of the mill") is a small village approximately outside Port Ellen on the Isle of Islay, Scotland. The village is within the parish of Kildalton, and is situated on the A846 road The A846 road is one o ...

at the eastern terminus of the

A846 road The A846 road is one of the two principal roads of Islay in the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of mainland Scotland and the only 'A' road on the neighbouring island of Jura. A ferry connects the two islands across the Sound of Islay. It co ...

. Ardbeg is the site of the

Ardbeg distillery Ardbeg distillery (Scottish Gaelic: ''Taigh-staile na h-Àirde Bige'') is a Scotch whisky distillery in Ardbeg on the south coast of the isle of Islay, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, in the Inner Hebrides group of islands. The distillery is ow ...

which was established in 1815 and produces malt whisky. The village grew up around the distilleryWilson.N (2003) Ardbeg in ''The Island Whisky Trail'' pp.32-43, Colour Books Ltd.
available online
, retrieved 2015-10-20. and by 1900 was home to over 40 distillery workersWilson.N op. cit. p.34History
Ardbeg project. Retrieved 2015-10-20. and had a village school with over 100 pupils. By the end of the 1920s the decline in the village was "noticeable".Wilson.N op. cit. p.38 The name ''Ardbeg'' is an

anglicisation Anglicisation is the process by which a place or person becomes influenced by English culture or British culture, or a process of cultural and/or linguistic change in which something non-English becomes English. It can also refer to the influen ...

of the

''An Àird Bheag'', meaning ''The Small Promontory''.

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