In 1759, brewer Arthur Guinness signed a lease on the St. James's Gate site in Dublin for an extraordinary term of 9,000 years at an annual rent of 45 pounds. The brewery has operated on that same site ever since, and the lease is often cited as one of the longest of its kind ever recorded.
Record no. MRB-2026-005884
Longest Recorded Commercial Lease
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