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The Butter Museum, Cork – nearly 30 years of pure butter!

Lecture by

Dr Danielle O’Donovan

on

Thursday January 29 2026

at

8pm

in

Clonakilty GAA Club, Ahamilla, P85 WN84

Photo: The Butter Museum

 

In this talk Dr Danielle O’Donovan, the Director of Cork Butter Museum will look at the history of The Cork Butter Exchange, founded in 1769 and The Butter Museum, founded in 1997, while making butter using vintage equipment which we can all taste as part of the talk.

 

Danielle O’Donovan, who hails from Ardfield, is Director of The Butter Museum, Cork and Lecturer in History of Art at University College Cork. Before taking up her role at the museum she worked as a consultant for The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Heritage Council and The National Museum of Ireland. She has worked at Nano Nagle Place, for the Irish Heritage Trust and for Trinity College Dublin. Danielle likes to write about art history and local history, when time allows!

 

Cover charge: €5.

Documentary: Historic Coastal Village of Timoleague

As part of Heritage Week 2022, Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage visited the historic coastal village of Timoleague which is situated at the mouth of the Argideen river estuary.  To take us back over the centuries our guides are Diarmuid Kingston and Michael O’Mahony.

Documentary: Three Local Stories

Produced as part of Heritage Week 2021, this documentary tells three stories. The first part is the history of Lisselane Estate and in particular two of its owners – the infamous landlord William Bence Jones and in more modern times, C. O. Stanley. The second section concentrates on Kilgarriffe old cemetery and some of the many important individuals and families interred there over the last three hundred years or so. The final section of the video highlights Ring Village and the nearby Ballintemple Graveyard, detailing the importance of Ring as a port and the 800-year history of the cemetery wherein lay the remains of Tadhg an Asna among other notable names.