Mill wheels turn again

LIFE cycles of the country's old mills turn slowly like the giant working wheels of the buildings themselves.

In past decades, gentle decline and eventual demolition was the inevitable fate of the county's old, stone-built industrial legacy.

Now, though, a booming economy, a brave cohort of developers or individual restorers, new skills allied to an appreciation of old ways and materials has seen buildings brought back from the brink of ruin. Rineen Mills' time has now come, in the slow turn of history's wheels.