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The Cork Butter Market located in the Shandon area of Cork city. The
Museum describes the internationally important Butter Exchange in
nineteenth century Cork, the traditional craft of home butter making and
the modern success of the Kerrygold brand. The Cork Butter Market was
opened in 1770 and continued trading for 150 years bringing great wealth
to Cork. The gates of the market opened at 6.00 am every week day morning
and the streets were busy with horse-drawn carts bringing butter to the
market or carting it away to the local factories and waiting steamers on
the quays. The salted butter was brought to the market in wooden caskets
called "firkins". Butter firkins were made of oak, sycamore or good
hardwood with the best casks in the country being Cork-made ones, and
these were compulsory for butter going to tropical parts of the world.
Butter was brought by horse drawn cart from West Cork and Kerry along
routes known as butter-roads
Today the circular building has been restored as an arts and performance
centre. It is now known as the Firkin Crane Building.
Take the of
Cork City Tour by bus which stops at
St Anne's Shandon and just next door for the Cork Butter Museum, the
North Catheral, St Finbarr's Cathedral and much more.
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Last modified:
Tuesday April 03, 2012
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