Traditional & Authentic
100% Raw Honey
All our honey is raw, natural and pure. It is sourced from carefully selected, ethically-run, sustainable apiaries, where the well-being and contentment of the bees is of the highest importance. We only supply single origin honey, which means that the bees have harvested all their nectar from one specific area. All of our honey is fully traceable from source to spoon.
Our pure honey is packaged and bottled into glass jars, squeeze bottles and commercial buckets, on our farm in West Cork. It is then delivered to our retail and commercial customers.
We also produce comb honey and it is sold in timber sections.
Our Irish Honey & EU Honey Range
All our honey is non blended and fully traceable.
Irish Honey
340g 100% pure, unblended, single origin Irish Honey
EU Honey
340g 100% pure, unblended, single estate Irish Honey
The Family Business
Molaga Honey is a 4th generation family business, operated and run by devoted bee-keeper Kevin Collins, based in Timoleague, West Cork. The dairy farmer learned the craft from his father Jerry and keeps apiaries in various locations in West Cork.
Originally, the business was known as Collins’ Honey, and they supplied unblended, raw Irish honey to their customers from their apiaries in West Cork. In 1993, the family saw a gap in the market in Ireland for a premium quality EU honey. They scaled up the business supplying their own Irish honey and a second product – an EU honey. They also changed the name of the business to Molaga Honey.
Today, Molaga Honey produces their raw, natural, Irish unblended honey and they source and supply an extremely high-end EU honey, with the same properties. The products are available to purchase in national supermarkets, hotels, fine food stores and more.
Our Founders
Our story begins with a young girl, Catherine McCarthy Collins. One day, as she was
walking along the road she saw a swarm of bees in the ditch. She was intrigued by them and
asked her father about them. He helped her to recover the bees and so began a lifelong
interest in bees and the beginning of Collins’ Honey.
Timothy Collins learned the craft and passion of bee-keeping from his mother, Catherine. He kept many hives on the family farm and successfully ran the business, producing pure, West Cork honey up until his death in 1963.
Timothy’s son, Jerry Collins continued the family tradition of producing honey and increased the number of hives. Following his retirement from dairy farming in 1993, his hobby of bee-keeping became his full-time job. He gradually increased his apiaries and travelled all over West Cork looking after the bees and producing high quality West Cork honey.
He was particularly proud of his comb sections. Jerry discovered a gap in the Irish market for a premium level, more affordable unblended honey. He began importing single source, unblended honey from the E.U. Jerry decided to rebrand the business from Collins’ Honey to Molaga Honey as it is known today. He worked in the business, until he passed it on to his son, Kevin, in 2022.
Kevin Collins now runs this fourth-generation business. He grew up watching his dedicated father skilfully nurture the bees, produce comb sections and bottled honey. Kevin intends to nurture the business as well as the bees and continue the long tradition begun so long ago.