The Blarney Woollen Mills occupies a large converted mill building in the village centre, and has been selling Irish woollen goods since 1823. What started as a working mill has expanded into one of Ireland's largest souvenir and craft retailers — the scale can feel overwhelming, but the quality of the core woollen goods is genuine.
The ground floor is given over to the usual tourist-market goods (Aran sweaters, Waterford crystal, shamrock merchandise), but the original woollen products — tweed jackets, caps, blankets, and knitwear — are well-made and competitively priced compared to Dublin or Cork city shops. The building itself is worth seeing: the old mill machinery has been retained in parts of the structure, and the converted spaces give a sense of the original industrial scale.
The shop is open seven days a week and stays open late in summer. It's the kind of place you can spend twenty minutes or two hours in, depending entirely on your interest in Irish craft textiles.