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.