If you've ever been to the county of Kerry, in the very southwest of Ireland, you'll

probably understand why it's earned the nickname the Kingdom.

The countryside around here is in a word majestic, and it's been one of Ireland's biggest

tourism destinations for as long as anyone can remember.

But tucked away in one of the most beautiful corners

of this county on the famous ring of Kerry is a very special place, a centuries-old

woolen mill that has been marrying tradition with contemporary styling for generations. My name is Andrew Eadie.

I'm the managing director of Kerry Woolen Mills. I'm a Kerryman through and the shrew and we're

working from the same side of 200 years, but we'd like to think our business,

though old and traditional, is adapted to modern usage. Andrew has grown up around the

woolen business. His great-grandfather bought this place back in 1904, and by then there had

already been a woolen mill here for over 200 years.

He learned all he needed to know from his father, and then worked hard on further refining

his craft by incorporating the wisdom of fellow weavers.

Yeah, so I suppose I was hanging around this place since I was eight or nine, really,

and my father passed on all his knowledge to me.

For centuries, these woollen mills have drawn their power from the nearby river Guistin,

which drives its wooden water turbines.

Today, that river still provides a natural, traditional, and renewable source of energy for the mills.

I suppose there's a drive, every is a drive to make themselves more green,

and our project is to make ourselves self-sufficient in energy in the next 10 years.

And in a way, I suppose that's going back to the roots, I'd imagine.

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