001 Butter Boxes; these 56lb boxes were the standard package for creamery butter for much of the 20th century.

002 Pages from the 1925 Statutory Regulations governing the preparation of butter boxes. The packaging of butter was carefully regulated and inspected.

003 Firkins; these were the older type of butter packaging, used, for example, in the Cork Butter Exchange extraction of the butter. Note also the tap at the side of the churn to allow the butter milk.

004 Packing a firkin at a butter works in Dunbar Street, Cork, early c20th