Ardrahan Farmhouse Cheese

Ardrahan, Kanturk, Co Cork.

Grazing happily on the lush Kanturk pasture land, it’s no wonder the Ardrahan herd produce such wonderful milk that is that form the characteristics of the unique flavour of Ardrahan Farmhouse Cheeses. Those clever people at Ardrahan have also specially produced Lullaby Milk, cows are milked in the dark of the morning and as a result their milk retains all its natural goodness and creaminess.

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Ardsallagh Goat Farm

Carrigtwohill, Co Cork.

Jane and Gerard Murphy’s award wining Ardsallagh Goat’s Cheese is one of the original Irish farmhouse cheeses. It was first produced in two styles - as a soft fresh goat’s cheese, ready to eat in a week, and also a hard, mature version, left to age for four months minimum, which lends a fuller flavour, finished with a serious bite of goaty acidity. Nowadays the range has grown, and includes the fabulous soft roulade rolled with oregano, or at Christmas, jewel like cranberries.

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Beal Organic Cheese

Beale Lodge Organic Farm, Asdee, Listowel, Co Kerry.

Kate Carmody is a sixth generation chemist and her specialist area is Bio-Chemistry, but Cheesemaking is her true love and Beal Organic Cheese came about as a result of marrying an Irish dairy farmer and settling in the north Kerry farmhouse. She began making cheese in 1987 and in 1997 the farm underwent organic conversion, with full status achieved in 2000. Beale Lodge Organic Farm is also GM free and Kate has been instrumental in the anti GM movement in Ireland and is a full time pro-active campaigner for the organic movement. Raw milk Beal Organic Cheese is a wonderful, creamy, cheddar style crumbly textured cheese, which packs a piquant, fiery explosion of taste that sets it totally apart Kate Carmody is a living legend and all her cheeses are equally celebrated.

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Cashel Blue Farmhouse Cheese

Beechmount, Fethard, Co Tipperary.

When Louis and Jane Grubb created Cashel Blue back in 1984, little did they know they were creating an iconic Irish cheese, Ireland’s first farmhouse blue cheese – Cashel Blue. Tipperary’s rolling green countryside is home to this culinary masterpiece, where the Grubb family select and mature with passion and commitment using milk from their own dairy farm. Their philosophy is simple they are a local, sustainable, farm-based, genuine handmade product, who pay a huge attention to details, particularly to selection and maturation – overall its taste that matters for true customer satisfaction of Cashel and Crozier Blue Cheese.

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Chocolate Garden of Ireland (The)

Rath, Tullow, Co Carlow.

Jim and Mary Healy and their dedicated team of chocolate and biscuit experts, they produce a spectacular range of luxury, handmade chocolates, divine waffles, sensational chocolate spreads, rich butter biscuits and chocolate bars in the heart of the garden of Ireland.

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Cooleeney Cheese

Cooleeney, Moyne, Thurles, Co Tipperary

The dairy herd used to produce Cooleeney cheeses enjoys the lush green grasses of Tipperary’s Golden Vale. Established in 1986 by Jim and Breda Maher on the family farm, their ambition was to produce a range of artisan cheeses using the milk from their own Friesians. Now the Maher’s have an award winning selection of cheeses to tantalise every palate.

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Corleggy Cheeses

Corleggy, Belturbet, Co Cavan.

Silke Cropp has been producing her famous homemade artisan farmhouse cheeses for over 20 years now and any awards she has not already won are simply not worth winning. This woman’s commitment to creating artisan cheeses made with love, care and devotion, has ensured the rise and rise of her range to where it stands today, at the very pinnacle of artisan food production in Ireland.

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Cuinneog

Shraheens, Balla, Castlebar, Co Mayo.

A little of what you fancy does you good, so when you only enjoy butter as recommended, make it the best. And that’s how the lovely people at Cuinneog feel, and they make some of the best butter in the land, and they even make some that could do the digestive system a world of good. Tom and Sheila Butler established Cuinneog Country Butter in 1990, in Castlebar, County Mayo to satisfy consumer demand for fresh butter and buttermilk with a natural creamy country taste. They are focused on keeping their product as natural as possible to retain the flavour their customers come back for time and again.

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Fermoy Natural Cheese

Strawhill, Fermoy, Co Cork.

Frank and Gudrun Shinnick’s wonderful range of farmhouse cheeses are iconic on the Irish food scene. They have been made for many years, with rich milk from north Cork’s famous green pastures and their quality and consistency ensures the cheeses continue to scoop awards, and find themselves always on the tables of the great and good in the restaurant world. But it is perhaps in the home environment, where Fermoy Natural Cheeses come into their own, enjoyed just as the Cheesemaker and his wife intended them to be – at their optimum taste and texture, and with simple accompaniments like good bread, good company, and a glass of wine.

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Glenilen Farm

Gurteeniher, Drimoleague, Co Cork.

Alan and Valerie Kingston of Glenilen Farm, have been producing some of the best natural dairy products in Ireland on their family dairy farm in West Cork since 1997. Their philosophy is simple; they make natural products with authentic farmhouse taste, with absolutely no additives or preservatives in their products you can really taste the unique freshness throughout all the Glenilen range, which continues to go from strength to strength. Each product is carefully handmade from the milk of their own herd and of neighbouring farms producing Glenilen’s wonderfully creamy milk, which is the basis for the superlative dairy products such as delicious, light as a feather cheesecakes, fromage frais, pro-biotic natural yoghurt, rich clotted and double cream and the best ever country butter.

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