Irish Farmhouse Cheeses

Irish farmhouse cheeses are the product of unique interactions between people, place and pasture - the antithesis of modern anonymized food production. These cheeses are produced across the country yet each cheese is an expression of its own particular part of Ireland, encapsulating very different elemental aspects of our native landscape.

Yet Irish artisan cheese is also about people. Each Irish artisan cheese is unique to its cheesemaker and each cheesemaker has a different story to tell. The transparency of this connection between producer, cheese and place is the key characteristic of Irish farmhouse cheese. To know these people and their stories is to understand what makes Irish farmhouse Abbey Cheese Company Ardagh CASTLE ARDRAHAN cheese so special. Contact Details: Cuffsborough, Ballacolla, Contact Details: Baltimore, Co. Contact Details: Ardrahan Farmhouse, , Portlaoise, Co. Laois T: 028 20547; C: Judy Wotton Co. Cork T: 057 8738599; C: Pat Hyland T: 029 78099; C: Mary Burns By getting to know these cheeses and the people who produce them you can help Cheeses Produced: Ardagh Castle Goats Cheese, guarantee the future of a native Irish industry which, in less than forty years, has gone on to Cheeses Produced: Abbey Blue Brie, Ardagh Castle Gjetost, Ardagh Castle Ricotta Cheeses Produced: Ardrahan; Smoked Ardrahan; Abbey Smoked Brie, Paddy Jack Cheese Duhallow produce cheeses the equal of any in the world.

Ardsallagh goat’s Bay Lough Cheese Beal organic CHEESE cheese Cahills Farm Cheeses Ltd Carlow Cheese products Contact Details: Clogheen, Co. Tipperary Contact Details: Beal Lodge Organic Farm, Contact Details: Ballynacally, Ennis, Co Clare Contact Details: Newcastle West, Co Limerick Contact Details: Fenagh, Co. Carlow Contact Details: Woodstock, , Co. Cork T: 052 7465275 Asdee, Listowel, Co. Kerry T: 065 6838024; C: Paul Keane T: 069 62365; C: Dan Cahill T: 059 9727382; T: 021 4882336; C: Jane Murphy C: Anne & Dick Keating T: 068 41137; C: Kate Carmody C: Elizabeth Bradley Cheeses Produced: Cygnus, Cygnus with Honey, Cheeses Produced: Cahills Ballintubber with Cheeses Produced: Ardsallagh Soft Goat’s Cheese, Cheeses Produced: Bay Lough Cheddar, Cheeses Produced: Beal Cheddar (pasteurised and Cygnus with Pepper, Orion, Pegasus Chives Cheese, Cahills Ballyporeen Cheese, Cahills Cheeses Produced: Carlow Cheese, Ardagh Wine Cheese, Cahills Original Irish Porter Ardsallagh Smoked Cheese, Ardsallagh Smoked, Garlic & Herb, Smoked Herb & Garlic unpasteruised) Carlow Cheese Flavoured Cheese, Cahills Whiskey Cheese Hard Goat’s Cheese

Carrigaline Carrigbyrne Cheese Carrowholly CLEIRE Goats Cheese Clonmore Coolattin ChEDDAR Contact Details: Clonmore, Newtown, Contact Details: Knockteen, Tullow, Co Carlow Contact Details: The Rock, , Co. Cork Contact Details: Adamstown, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford Contact Details: Carrowholly, Westport, Co. Mayo Contact Details: , Co Cork Charleville, Co. Cork T: 086 3894482; C: Tom Burgess T: 021 4372856; C: Pat O’Farrell T: 053 9240560; C: Patrick Berridge T: 098 28813 T: 028 / 087 7973056 C: Andrew Pelham Burn C: Ed Harper T: 063 70490; C: Tom Biggane Cheeses Produced: Coolattin Cheddar Cheeses Produced: Carrigaline Farmhouse Cheese, Cheeses Produced: St Killian, St Brendan Brie, Emerald Cheeses Produced: Clonmore, Shandrum Carrigaline Garlic & Herb, Carrigaline Beech Smoked Irish Brie Cheeses Produced: Carrowholly Cheese, Flavoured Cheeses Produced: Cleire Goats Cheese Cheese: Nettle, Pepper, Garlic & Herb, Cumin

Coolea Cheese Cooleeney Corleggy Cheese Cratloe Hills Dingle Peninsula Cheese Cheese Contact Details: Coolea, , Co Cork Farmhouse Cheese Contact Details: Corleggy, Belturbet, Co. Cavan Contact Details: Cratloe Hills, Brickhill House, Contact Details: Castlegregory, Co. Kerry Contact Details: Coomkeen, Durrus, Co. Cork T: 026 45204; Contact Details: Moyne, Thurles, Co. Tipperary T: 049 9522930; C: Silke Cropp Cratloe, Co. Clare T: 066 7139028; C: Maja Binder T: 027 61100; C: Jeffa Gill C: Dicky Willems Jnr T: 0504 45112; C: Breda Maher T: 061 357185; C: Sean Fitzgerald Cheeses Produced: Cooleeney, Dunbarra, Cheeses Produced: Corleggy, Drumlin, Creeny Cheeses Produced: Kilcummin, Dilliskus Cheeses Produced: Durrus Cheeses Produced: Coolea Cheese Gortnamona, Maighean, Chulchoill, Daru, Tipperary Cheeses Produced: Cratloe Hills Brie, Gleann Oir

Fermoy Natural Cheese Co Gleann Gabhra Glebe Brethan glyde farmhouse produce Gubbeen Farmhouse CHEESE Hegarty’s CHEDDAR Contact Details: Strawhill, , Co. Cork Contact Details: Baile Mhae, Teamhair, Contae na Mi Contact Details: Glebe House, Dunleer, Co. Louth Contact Details: Mansfieldtown, Castlebellingham, Contact Details: Gubbeen Farmhouse, , Contact Details: Whitechurch Foods, Church Road, T: 025 31310 T: 087 173 529 T: 041 6851157; M: 087 6742043 Co. Louth Co Cork White Church, Co. Cork C: Frank & Gudrun Shinnick C: Dominic Gryson C: David Tiernan T: 042 9372343; M: 087 2778538 T: 028 28231; C: Giana Ferguson T: 021 488 42 38 C: Peter Thomas C: Dan and John Hegarty Cheeses Produced: St Gall , St Brigid, Cais Dubh, Cheeses Produced: Tara Ban Goat’s Cheddar Cheeses Produced: Glebe Brethan Cheeses Produced: Gubbeen, Gubbeen Smoked Cais Rua, Hibernia, St Brigid Beag, Ballyhooly Blue, Cheeses Produced: Bellingham Blue Cheeses Produced: Hegarty’s Cheddar Emerald, Corkotta

J&L Grubb JOD Foods Killeen Farmhouse Cheese KillORGLIN CHEESE Knockalara Knockanore Contact Details: Effin Creamery, Effin, Contact Details: Killeen Millhouse, Ballyshrule, Contact Details: Ardmoniel, Killorglin, Co. Kerry Contact Details: Beechmount Farm, Fethard, Farmhouse Cheese Farmhouse Cheese Kilmallock, Co. Limerick Ballinasloe, Co Galway Co Tipperary T: 066 9761402; Contact Details: Knockalara Farmhouse Cappoquin, Contact Details: Ballyneety, Knockanore, Co. Waterford T: 063 71209; C: Jim O’Doherty T: 090 9741319 T: 052 6131151; C: Wilma O’Connor Co. Waterford T: 024 97275; C: Eamonn Lonergan C: Marion Roeleveld C: Sarah & Sergio Furno T: 024 96326 Cheeses Produced: Old Irish Creamery Extra Mature Cheeses Produced: Wilma’s Killorglin, C: Agnes & Wolfgang Schliebtz Cheeses Produced: Smoked Knockanore, Knockanore White Cheddar, and flavoured cheddars: blueberries, Cheeses Produced: Killeen Goat’s Cheese, Cheeses Produced: Cashel Blue™, Crozier Blue Wilma’s Killorglin Flavoured Cheeses Produced: Knockalara Sheeps, Semi-Hard Plain, Knockanore Flavoured: Garlic and Chive, Garlic and red wine, chilli, cranberries, chives, herb & garlic, Killeen Cow’s Cheese Sheeps, Waterford Greek, Dromona Flavoured: natural, Herb, Black Pepper and Herb whiskey, Irish porter, walnuts, and smoked cheddar fine herbs, pepper, roasted sesame

KnockATEE Cheese Knockdrinna Cheese Ltd Millhouse Sheep’s Cheese moonshine farm cheese Mossfield Organic Farm Contact Details: Lehid Upper, Tousist, South Kerry Farmhouse Cheese Contact Details: Milleens, Eyeries, Beara, Co Cork Contact Details: Mill House, Killeenmore, Contact Details: Moonshine Dairy Farm, Lough Ennell, Contact Details: Clareen, Birr, Co. Offaly T: 064 84236; C: Peter Ireson Contact Details: Main Street, Stoneyford, Co. Kilkenny T: 027 74079; C: Quinlan Steele Tullamore, Co Offaly Ladestown, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath T: 057 9131002; C: Ralph Haslam T: 056 7728446; C: Helen Finnegan T: 057 9344334; C: Beni Gerber T: 087 9934108; C: Mary Kelly Cheeses Produced: Knockatee Cheddar, Knockatee Cheeses Produced: Milleens Cheeses Produced: Mossfield Organic Cheese: natural, Gouda, Kerry Blue, Beara Blue, Knockatee Cheddar Cheeses Produced: Cheeses produced: Lavistown, Cheeses Produced: Millhouse Cheeses Produced: Moonshine Organic Farm garlic & basil, tomato & herb, and cumin seed Knockdrinna Snow, Knockdrinna Goat’s Brined Cheese, Emmental, Moonshine Organic Farm Cream Cheese Knockdrinna Meadow Sheep;s Cheese, Knockdrinna Fresh Goats Log, Knockdrinna Gold

Mount Callan cheddar Old McDonnells Orchard Cottage Dairy TRISKEL cheese Contact Details: Drinagh, Ennistymon, Co. Clare FARM cheese Contact Details: Orchard Cottage Dairy, Rigsdale, Contact Details: Inagh Farmhouse, Ennis, Co. Clare Contact Details: Killowen Orchard, Portlaw, Contact Details: Curranstown, Arklow, Co. Wicklow T: 065 7072008; C: Lucy Hayes Contact Details: Old MacDonnells Farm, , Co Cork T: 065 6836633; Co Waterford T: 0402 91713; C: John Hempenstall Glen O’ The Downs, Co. Wicklow T: 086 3037871 C: Siobhan Ni Ghairbhith T: 086 0744534; C: Anna Leveque Cheeses Produced: Mount Callan Cheddar C: Joseph Desmond T: 01 2829707; C: Brian MacDonnell Cheeses Produced: Wicklow Blue, Wicklow Ban, Cheeses Produced: St Tola Log, St Tola Hard Goat’s, Cheeses Produced: Triskel Gwenned, Triskel Dew Drop, Wicklow Gold, St Kevin’s Brie Old McDonnells Fresh Cow’s Cheeses Produced: Cheeses Produced: Fresh Goat’s Cheese, St Tola Divine Triskel Pyramid Cheese, Old McDonnells Fresh Goat’s Cheese Goat’s Cheese in Oil (various flavours available)

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