At the sign of the cow : the Cork Butter Market, 1770-1924 / Colin Rynne ; foreword by Tony O'Reilly.
By: Rynne, Colin
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BookPublisher: Cork : Collins, 1998Description: 118 p. : ill., ports ; 25 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 1898256594.Subject(s): Cork Butter Market (1770-1924) -- History | Butter trade -- Cork, Ireland -- History | Dairy products industry -- Cork, Ireland -- HistoryDDC classification: 338.476372 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 338.476372 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00074562 | |
| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 338.476372 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00074561 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
General history of the Cork dutter exchange, detailing its origins, and development and the inland trade routes, the 'dutter' roads which supplied it.
Bibliography: (pages 112-113) and index.
Dairying and traditional butter-making in Munster -- "...A place of great export": The port of Cork and the rise of the Irish Butter trade -- " A custom unknown to any place but this": The origins of the Cork butter market -- The twenty-four hour market -- "He travels night and day": The butter roads -- Foreign competition, "roguish compounds", decline and closure.