Ballinwillin House

Ballinwillin House, Mitchelstown, Co Cork

Ballinwillin House, Mitchelstown, Co Cork combines Farmhouse bed and breakfast accommodation on a working farm. The family rear a herd of free range rare breed pigs, red deer and Kerry cattle, to provide meat for their own artisan products. The owners also have a vineyard in Hungary, which produces a range of wines to enjoy with the food. Farm shop also on the premises.

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Castlemine Farm

Castlemine, Fourmilehouse, Co Roscommon.

At Good Food Ireland, we support farmers who are taking their livelihoods into their own hands, and using their commitment, skills and methods to produce meat with sustainable farming methods. Brendan and Derek Allen are doing just that in a big way. The land has been in the family for three generations, and these days the two brothers are putting it to good use to rear their own meats to supply the Castlemines Farm Shop in Roscommon Town which also sells artisan specialties from Ireland.

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Coolanowle Country House & Organic Farm

Coolanowle, Ballickmoyler, Carlow.

Coolanowle Country House and Organic Farm is a haven of tranquility with 3 acres of beautiful beech wood gardens and 18th century flax ponds, not to mention our working Organic Farm. James and Bernadine Mulhall have created a wonderful country retreat in James' beautiful family home on the Carlow Laois border. Beauty and Body Treatments also available for a pampering break away from it all.

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Crowe's Farm

Crowe's Farm, Gurtussa, Dundrum, Co Tipperary

Crowe’s Farm is a longstanding family business, now run by brothers TJ, John Paul and Ned, which produces a range of home made dry cured bacon using local farm pork, and the exclusive meat from their own free-range herd. Crowe’s bacon is made at the family farmhouse - which handles the whole process right through from farm to fork using natural organic grain based feed and whatever the lush green fields and hedgerows offer and of course a special recipe handed down from their father for bacon curing.

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Inch House, Country House & Restaurant

Thurles, Co Tipperary.

Inch House offers a uniquely luxurious experience, combining the best elements of country living and cooking with all of the comforts afforded by the 18th century gentry who built this elegant home. This elegant house is as good as it gets in the Irish country house league. The stay here is as cosy and comfortable as the rooms in which you’ll be accommodated and the famous Irish hospitality that greets you on arrival, extends to the wonderful local and seasonally influenced dining experience.

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Irish Piemontese Beef

Blackcastle, Two Mile Borris, Thurles, Co Tipperary.

Two family farmers based in Tipperary and Laois breeding purebred Quality Irish Artisian Piemontese Beef supplied directly to your home. Lower in fat and cholesterol than chicken and extremely tasty and tender, Irish Piemontese Beef is naturally reared on Bord Bia approved farms and is fully traceable from farm to fork.

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James Whelan Butchers

Oakville Shopping Centre, Clonmel, Co Tipperary.

James Whelan Butchers is a family business in it’s fifth generation working and farming with the local community producing beef, lamb, pork and bacon. Pat Whelan is one of the few butchers in the country to take its raw product from field through to plate, he has developed a clear vision that at its heart, has the customer in mind. Pat believes that the core value of the company is selling the highest quality naturally produced product available and their passion for food coupled with high quality standards continues to satisfy and delight their customers.

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Jane Russell’s Original Irish

Link Business Park, Kilcullen, Co Kildare.

You might say a banger is a banger is a banger, but you won’t say that anymore when you taste Jane Russell’s Original Irish Sausages. Think best quality pork and beef from one individual small producer in the heart of Tipperary. Think delicious flavourings and styles not usually the norm in mass produced sausages. And think taste, juiciness and the most savoury moistness in the mouth. Now that’s a Jane Russell banger for you!

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Kelly's of Newport Artisan Butchers

17 Main Street, Newport, Co Mayo.

Kelly’s Artisan Butchers began 75 years ago and are among an elite five butchers in Mayo who have their own abattoir. Seán is a man who is passionate about his life’s work striving always for quality and the pleasure of meeting and pleasing his customers and Kelly’s have won so many national and international awards that they became too numerous to display. “The Putóg”, a speciality pudding made in the traditional way, is synonymous with Kelly’s and a must to try when visiting!

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Market Butcher (The)

Unit 11, Block G, Greenogue Business Park, Rathcoole, Co Dublin

A butcher’s shop in Drimnagh when they finished their apprenticeships was the start of a 21 year journey that has taken butchers Michael Bermingham and Karl Freeman out to Newcastle, Co Dublin via a very successful enterprise in Tallaght village. Their Market Butcher in Greenogue is the full turning of the circle as they branched out to the wholesale section. But retail sales are now very much on the agenda. What sets the Market Butcher apart from other similar shops is the attention to detail and above all, the quality of the product.

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