MULLAN LIGHTING | VOLUME 11
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1850
2013
2009
1922
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1978
2012
Mullan Lighting expands its product range
from traditional pub and church lighting to
vintage and industrial-style lighting. The
company begins to export to the United
Kingdom.
Mullan Lighting attends its first international
trade show, MAISON&OBJET, in Paris.
Subsequent trade shows in Germany,
Stockholm and the United Kingdom help
establish the Mullan Lighting brand across
Europe.
Mullan Lighting is established by Mike Treanor
inside the old mill building. At the same time
the mill houses in the village are faithfully
restored and life is brought back to Mullan
once more.
A shoe factory is established in the old mill and
Mullan Village is once again a bustling rural
center. The factory employed over 80 people
at its height and manufactured the Mill Brand
and the Border Brand footwear.
The shoe factory closes. The nearby border
road also closes due to The Troubles in
Northern Ireland. The factory would lie idle
for the next 30 years. By 1990 most of the mill
cottages are abandoned and the village is all
but deserted.
A flax mill, with its associated mill race and
workers’ cottages, is developed on the site in
Mullan village. The mill remained operational
until the early 20th century.
