Our Story
So Far!
Folláin is founded in 1983
Mairin and Peadar O’Lionaird have always shared a love for sweet things. When Mairin met Eithne Ui Shiadhail in the honey business in the early 80s, it turned out they both loved cooking and had a shared passion for preserving traditions. What better way to preserve tradition than to make a traditional preserve? Using Eithne’s grandmother’s recipe, they whipped up their first batch of Grapefruit Marmalade in Peadar and Mairin’s West Cork kitchen and brought it to the market in 1983. It wasn’t long before Peadar was roped into the production line and the trio became the core Folláin team.
Folláin was born using a 100 year old grapefruit marmalade recipe that had been passed down through family generations. 30 years and more than 30 jams later, Folláin are still piping out preserves in the family factory in Ballyvourney, Co Cork.
1985: Building on this modest beginning of hand preparing the fruit and cooking the jams & marmalades in our kitchen, word spread quickly about the delicious jams and marmalades being produced out of our family factory in Cuil Aodha, Co Cork. Follain’s first ‘big break’ came when Superquinn ordered 100 cases of our jams and marmalades to sell in their shops. It was time to move to a slightly bigger factory in Ballymakeera and find five new jam enthusiasts to join the team.
1985: Folláin’s first ‘big break’!
To keep up with the demand for the growing range of preserves and relishes, the family business moved to a new state-of-the-art factory and employed 15 people. Even with a bit more space and modern machines around us, that special homemade quality remains sealed in our jars. How do we do it? Well, that’s a family secret.
Having started with a team of three, we now have a team of 17 working on our delicious preserves, both savoury and sweet. Mairin and Peader’s children spent many of their summer holidays surrounded by indulgently sticky jams and delightfully chunky chutneys learning the family business.
Mairin and Peader’s son Michael works on developing recipes for Folláin when he’s not busy studying commerce. Their daughter Mairead brings her knowledge of studying and working in horticulture to the business. Their other son Aodh has chosen a career path outside of the food industry but, as Mairin and Peader might say, you can’t win them all and two out of three isn’t bad.
Folláin started because of a desire to preserve traditions and passing on those traditions from one generation to the next is at the core of our ethos.
Folláin’s commitment to wholesome food led to the introduction of a No Added Sugar range in 2007 which is just as sweet as the traditional taste Folláin lovers everywhere are used to.
Folláin is the Irish word for wholesome which is at the core of our commitment to honest food made with the purest ingredients to hand. We really believe that preserves have the power to capture nature at its best and that’s what we wanted to share with the world.
Back in 1984, Folláin branched out from the original grapefruit marmalade purely to make use of the delicious gooseberries, strawberries and raspberries that were available locally in Inniscarra and Kanturk, or further afield in County Wexford. Everything we make is made with 100% natural fruit.
Mairin and Peadar’s love of good food and eating well makes home-cooking essential to their happiness. That home cooking comfort and care is at the essence of everything they make. We think it’s the strong family ties in a business capable of producing enough jams to feed a few armies that sets us apart. Even through our expansion, we’re proud that we’ve never lost sight of what is at our core; family and tradition.
2012: Folláin gets a makeover.
Folláin prides itself on using Irish ingredients wherever possible. It’s true, sometimes we have to go further afield to get the sunny Seville oranges for our marmalades. But we work closely with producers like Keelings in Dublin, Clarke’s Fresh Fruit in Meath, Sunnyside Fruit Farm in Cork, Kearns Fruit Farm in Wexford, and The Apple Farm in Tipperary to ensure that wherever possible our jars are oozing with 100% Irish fruit.
If you start with great fruit, you’ll have great jam and so Folláin won’t settle for anything less. The relationship we’ve built up with our producers over the years has led to mutual trust; we trust the producers to give us the best of their fruit and the producers trust us to use their fruit in the best way possible.
Folláin’s jars were given a well-received makeover, with a new look that didn’t change the delicious traditional Folláin recipes.
We aren’t ones for boasting but it can’t be denied that our preserves have gained some fans along the way. It has given us great pleasure to see our products being recognized by organisations whose recognition we treasure. We’ve had tips of the hat from the Guild of Fine Food, Great Taste Awards and Blas Na hEireann, winning a lovely amount of gold, silver and bronze awards along the way.
2012
Great Taste Awards
Blas na hEireann
2013
Great Taste Awards
Thanks to support from The Irish Independent, Folláin have embarked on a Naturally Made From All Things Nice campaign to highlight just how nice our jars really are – inside and out
Folláin is founded in 1983
Mairin and Peadar O’Lionaird have always shared a love for sweet things. When Mairin met Eithne Ui Shiadhail in the honey business in the early 80s, it turned out they both loved cooking and had a shared passion for preserving traditions. What better way to preserve tradition than to make a traditional preserve? Using Eithne’s grandmother’s recipe, they whipped up their first batch of Grapefruit Marmalade in Peadar and Mairin’s West Cork kitchen and brought it to the market in 1983. It wasn’t long before Peadar was roped into the production line and the trio became the core Folláin team.
Folláin was born using a 100 year old grapefruit marmalade recipe that had been passed down through family generations. 30 years and more than 30 jams later, Folláin are still piping out preserves in the family factory in Ballyvourney, Co Cork.
1985: Building on this modest beginning of hand preparing the fruit and cooking the jams & marmalades in our kitchen, word spread quickly about the delicious jams and marmalades being produced out of our family factory in Cuil Aodha, Co Cork. Follain’s first ‘big break’ came when Superquinn ordered 100 cases of our jams and marmalades to sell in their shops. It was time to move to a slightly bigger factory in Ballymakeera and find five new jam enthusiasts to join the team.
1985: Folláin’s first ‘big break’!
To keep up with the demand for the growing range of preserves and relishes, the family business moved to a new state-of-the-art factory and employed 15 people. Even with a bit more space and modern machines around us, that special homemade quality remains sealed in our jars. How do we do it? Well, that’s a family secret.
Having started with a team of three, we now have a team of 17 working on our delicious preserves, both savoury and sweet. Mairin and Peader’s children spent many of their summer holidays surrounded by indulgently sticky jams and delightfully chunky chutneys learning the family business.
Mairin and Peader’s son Michael works on developing recipes for Folláin when he’s not busy studying commerce. Their daughter Mairead brings her knowledge of studying and working in horticulture to the business. Their other son Aodh has chosen a career path outside of the food industry but, as Mairin and Peader might say, you can’t win them all and two out of three isn’t bad.
Folláin started because of a desire to preserve traditions and passing on those traditions from one generation to the next is at the core of our ethos.
Folláin’s commitment to wholesome food led to the introduction of a No Added Sugar range in 2007 which is just as sweet as the traditional taste Folláin lovers everywhere are used to.
Folláin is the Irish word for wholesome which is at the core of our commitment to honest food made with the purest ingredients to hand. We really believe that preserves have the power to capture nature at its best and that’s what we wanted to share with the world.
Back in 1984, Folláin branched out from the original grapefruit marmalade purely to make use of the delicious gooseberries, strawberries and raspberries that were available locally in Inniscarra and Kanturk, or further afield in County Wexford. Everything we make is made with 100% natural fruit.
Mairin and Peadar’s love of good food and eating well makes home-cooking essential to their happiness. That home cooking comfort and care is at the essence of everything they make. We think it’s the strong family ties in a business capable of producing enough jams to feed a few armies that sets us apart. Even through our expansion, we’re proud that we’ve never lost sight of what is at our core; family and tradition.
2012: Folláin gets a makeover.
Folláin prides itself on using Irish ingredients wherever possible. It’s true, sometimes we have to go further afield to get the sunny Seville oranges for our marmalades. But we work closely with producers like Keelings in Dublin, Clarke’s Fresh Fruit in Meath, Sunnyside Fruit Farm in Cork, Kearns Fruit Farm in Wexford, and The Apple Farm in Tipperary to ensure that wherever possible our jars are oozing with 100% Irish fruit.
If you start with great fruit, you’ll have great jam and so Folláin won’t settle for anything less. The relationship we’ve built up with our producers over the years has led to mutual trust; we trust the producers to give us the best of their fruit and the producers trust us to use their fruit in the best way possible.
Folláin’s jars were given a well-received makeover, with a new look that didn’t change the delicious traditional Folláin recipes.
We aren’t ones for boasting but it can’t be denied that our preserves have gained some fans along the way. It has given us great pleasure to see our products being recognized by organisations whose recognition we treasure. We’ve had tips of the hat from the Guild of Fine Food, Great Taste Awards and Blas Na hEireann, winning a lovely amount of gold, silver and bronze awards along the way.
2012
Great Taste Awards
Blas na hEireann
2013
Great Taste Awards
Thanks to support from The Irish Independent, Folláin have embarked on a Naturally Made From All Things Nice campaign to highlight just how nice our jars really are – inside and out
Privacy Policy
Last updated: 24/05/18
Follain Teoranta ("us", "we", or "our") operates www.follain.ie (the "Site"). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Site.
We use your Personal Information only for providing information and improving the Site. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
Information Collection and Use
While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you.
Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to: your name & e-mail address, IP address, pages visited by you.
Log Data
Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site ("Log Data").
This Log Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.
In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyse this data.
Communications
We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest.
We will only send you this information with your consent & you can opt out at any time.
We will never sell or distribute your personal information to a third party without your explicit consent.
Cookies
Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier.
Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer's hard drive.
Like many sites, we use "cookies" to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is extremely important to us, however no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Though we cannot 100% guarantee its absolute security, we do strive to make every effort to protect your information once it is passed to us.
External links
This website may contain links to other websites, & as such this privacy policy only applies to www.follain.ie. Once you leave our website, we recommend you read the privacy policy of any other website you visit, even if linked through www.follain.ie.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of 24/05/18 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.
We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
Folláin Teoranta
Cuil Aodha
Maighchromtha
Co Chorcai
00353-26-45288
Privacy Policy
Last updated: 24/05/18
Follain Teoranta ("us", "we", or "our") operates www.follain.ie (the "Site"). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Site.
We use your Personal Information only for providing information and improving the Site. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
Information Collection and Use
While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you.
Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to: your name & e-mail address, IP address, pages visited by you.
Log Data
Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site ("Log Data").
This Log Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.
In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyse this data.
Communications
We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest.
We will only send you this information with your consent & you can opt out at any time.
We will never sell or distribute your personal information to a third party without your explicit consent.
Cookies
Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier.
Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer's hard drive.
Like many sites, we use "cookies" to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is extremely important to us, however no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Though we cannot 100% guarantee its absolute security, we do strive to make every effort to protect your information once it is passed to us.
External links
This website may contain links to other websites, & as such this privacy policy only applies to www.follain.ie. Once you leave our website, we recommend you read the privacy policy of any other website you visit, even if linked through www.follain.ie.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of 24/05/18 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.
We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
Folláin Teoranta
Cuil Aodha
Maighchromtha
Co Chorcai
00353-26-45288
