The Butter Museum at the National Dairy Show a few years ago.

Bill of Lading of the Lydia, with 500 firkins of butter for London by Beamish, Craword and Keating 5 Dec 1786

CUA students on their annual visit to the Butter Museum making & tasting butter with Dominic.

View of the Museum as the sun shines and the leaves begin to show.

Recent acquisition; metal milk skimmer.  This was used to skim the cream from the top of the milk.  The small holes allowed the, now skimmed milk, to fall back into the vessel while thicker cream was removed elsewhere.

Detail from the Utrecht Psalter  from the first half of the 800s, showing butter being churned with a dash churn; http://www.utrechtpsalter.nl/#digital-edition

The wonderful Madge Ahern beside a photo of her younger self, listening to recordings that she made about her life.  This audio player, along with three others, have recently been installed in the Butter Museum, thanks to the support of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and the Marine.

Butter box, Newport, Co. Tipperary

The audience at the butter making demonstration last Saturday.

Weekend’s potato supply, Nolan’s Butchers, Shandon Street, Cork

O’Connell Street, Dublin, during the snow

Butter making demonstrations gallery

Click above to browse a gallery of photographs of the popular butter making demonstrations at the museum