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Jack's healthy gluten free sausages are low in fat and contain no artificial preservatives.
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Good food award 2008
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McCarthy's of Kanturk
Kanturk | Cork
Butchery Ireland - Tradional Butchers
To say Jack McCarthy is a character is an understatement! He is the fourth of five generations of butchers to work out of this bustling little shop in Kanturk, which draws home cooks and chefs alike. Jack is nothing if not pioneering in his attitude to selling the best of home reared meats. His shop is a traditional butcher’s shop, manned by his father, grandfather and great grandfather before him, and now in the capable hands of his own grown up children. In fact his son Tim was the winner of the Good Food Ireland's Next Generation Award in 2008.
It’s hung with old-fashioned cuts of well-matured meat. But alongside those, find some continental style cured meats too – all made on the premises here, to recipes devised by this innovative Irish butcher. Some of them are award winners. North Cork Bresaola is Jack’s speciality cured beef, and his North Cork Pancetta from free-range pork is akin to that of northern Italy. Or try the delicious Cherry and Oak cured Kassler, or seasonal Guinness and Cider Spiced Beef Jack also produces Kielbasa, a fabulous Polish sausage, and an array of fresh butcher’s sausages in a variety of flavours. One of these incorporates cheese maker Mary Burns’ delicious smoked Adrahan Farmhouse Cheese, also from the local area.
Home cured bacon is another McCarthy speciality, with joints and rashers salted here - and made from local pork. Some of Jack’s pork for curing comes from the free range David Dulohey’s Ballygiblin herd just ten miles away from the shop, and the pigs, a mix of Duroc, Landrace, Saddleback and even wild boar, are reared in the heart of the north Cork countryside completely without restrictions as to where they can roam! Lamb comes from the hills around Kanturk, often only coming on stream in early summer, since they are born slightly later here. In early spring, Jack sources lamb from Wicklow, Kerry and Galway. But it is perhaps the beef that is and always has been the mainstay of this butcher’s shop. Jack and his ancestors before him were always involved in farming and cattle dealing to source best quality beef, and that ethos remains today. Jack chooses the pure Angus breed, which is designed to produce good quality flavoursome meat - with that essential marbling of fat that indicates tenderness after cooking. He is also investigating the possibility of selling rare breeds like Shorthorn too.
If you want a taste of old Irish butchery at it’s best, this is the place to come. Whatever your fancy, be it for free range chicken, a joint of proper Irish bacon, a meaty and well matured steak or two, or a taste of some of North Cork’s home made charcuterie – here they all are. And when you’re purchasing, you’ll no doubt get a flavour of this man’s personality too. Jack McCarthy dishes out cookery advice and wicked stories as quickly as he can butcher his meat! Like we said at the beginning – here is one of Ireland’s greatest food characters. And aren’t the people of Cork only glad he belongs to them.
NEWS:
Winner of the Good Food Ireland
In 2010 Jack & Tim were crowned members of the ‘Brotherhood of the Knights of the Black Pudding’ – a title they won in the face of intense competition from 4,000 entrants from across Europe at the famous La Confrérie des Chevaliers du Goúte Boudin, a black pudding contest held in France.
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