{"id":703,"date":"2013-06-25T00:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/703-day-542-blarney-heirloom.html"},"modified":"2013-06-25T00:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T14:06:00","slug":"day-542-blarney-heirloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/703-day-542-blarney-heirloom.html","title":{"rendered":"Day 542, Blarney HeirLoom"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1081 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/542-_MG_6056.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOnce upon a time in Blarney there were great woolen mills known as Mahony&#8217;s Mills which manufactured woolen products and employed hundreds of locals in all manner of roles.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNearly 150 years from the day it was built the mills ground to a halt due to declining demand and production. 500 people lost their jobs in 1973 on the the day it closed. Two year later a former shop floor employee of over 22 years, Christy Kelleher, purchased the property and converted it into a souvenir shop and hotel.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNow known as the Blarney Woolen Mills it is the biggest Irish products store in Ireland thanks to Christy&#8217;s vision.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis old loom remains in the centre of the store as a reminder of another era.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, \u2018Day 542, Blarney HeirLoom&#8217; 1\/40s f\/4.0 ISO1600 40mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; Once upon a time in Blarney there were great woolen mills known as Mahony&#8217;s Mills which manufactured woolen products and employed hundreds of locals in all manner of roles. Nearly 150 years from the day it was built the mills ground to a halt due to declining demand and production. 500 &#8230; <a title=\"Day 542, Blarney HeirLoom\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/703-day-542-blarney-heirloom.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Day 542, Blarney HeirLoom\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}