Inside the factory: lighting the way with Mullan
Mullan Village is not the kind of place you stumble upon; you must mean to go there. And yet, pulling into the courtyard of what is now the Mullan Lighting facility, it becomes immediately obvious why Founders Mike and Edel Treanor chose this spot, and this mill, to build something lasting.
The village of Mullan was once a thriving rural centre in the 1850s, its flax mill providing employment for the small community of workers who lived in its cottages. In the early twentieth century the mill closed, and the village fell quiet. A shoe factory breathed life back into it in the 1920s, but that too shuttered in the 1970s, and for over a quarter of a century the buildings sat empty.
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on Hotel Designs.
