Extract from a recent post on Conde Nast.com on Cork.  The Butter Museum is described as “interesting”. A link to the full piece, by Mark Bolton, is on our links page.

From “The Reliques of Father Prout”

A dairy thermometer recently acquired by the Museum

Visitors to the Butter Museum, Heritage Day, 18th August 2018; photos Roland Paschhoff

The old and the new in West Cork; bulk tanks and a donkey.  Image from Drinagh Co-op website

Old signage exposed during the renovation of a property on the North Main Street, Cork

Scenes from the 53rd 2018 All Ireland churn rolling competitions held in Tipperary town as part of the Tipperary Festival last weekend.  Images courtesy of Tipperary Co-op and O’Gorman Photography

Local summer school group making butter with Don outside the Museum this morning.

Cover page from a publication from the Condensed Milk Company of Ireland (CMCI), better known as Cleeves from the 1920s.  The company was taken into state ownership and broken up in 1927.  Their Mallow plant became part of the Ballyclough Creamery and is now part of Dairygold Co-op.  Note the horns on the cows.

A butter worker,  probably from the 1910′s.  “Working the butter” was the phrase used to describe pressing the excess moisture from the butter when it came out of the butter churn.  Probably quite soon after the date of this photograph the process was incorporated into churn and butter working machines became obsolete.  Domestic butter makers used their butter spades or pats to press out the excess moisture.

Local school group making butter at the Museum this morning

Don and guest with the finished product

 view of a group of American visitors at a butter demonstration in the Museum last Friday.

Entertainment outside the Butter Museum as part of the Shandon Street Festival.

The Butter Exchange Band outside the Butter Museum performing as part of the Blasta event, Herbie Hendrick, Cork Person of the Month, April, conducting.  Herbie has been with the Buttera for almost 70 years.

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Some of the diners at the recording of an episode TG4′s forthcoming series on traditional Irish foods, which was filmed in O’Connell Square last evening.

Tripe and drisheen, with a lump of creamery butter; one of the dishes served at the Blasta recording yesterday evening

Our dear friend and colleague, John O’Brien, in characteristic good form charming a visitor.  To our great sadness, John died, suddenly, this weekend.  He will be greatly missed.

Butter made at a butter demonstration in the Butter Museum yesterday.  The golden colour, the distinctive marker of grass fed cows, is very apparent,

The Faerie Queen Butter wrapper from what was Ballyclough Creamery, now part of Dairygold.  The author of the Faerie Queen, Edmund Spenser, was granted about 3,000 acres near Mallow in the Elizabethan reconquest.  The land had been forfeit from  the Earl of Desmond.