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At the sign of the cow : the Cork Butter Market, 1770-1924 /

Rynne, Colin.

At the sign of the cow : the Cork Butter Market, 1770-1924 / Colin Rynne ; foreword by Tony O'Reilly. - Cork : Collins, 1998. - 118 p. : ill., ports ; 25 cm. + hbk.

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.

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Cork Butter Market (1770-1924) --History.


Butter trade--History.--Cork, Ireland
Dairy products industry--History.--Cork, Ireland

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