Butter Museum Cork

Shandon, Cork , County Cork, Ireland
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  • 1

    Directionally Challenged

    ... atmosphere, listened to a band for a little while, found a perfectly good abandoned umbrella which I nabbed, and toured the Butter Museum.  Yes, you read that right.  A whole museum dedicated to butter.  It was actually pretty ...

  • 2

    GLENVILLE (Cork)

    ... played Waltzing Matilda and Three Blind Mice. Heaps of fun, but it must drive the local residents crazy! We went to the butter museum and also the English Market. Finally, we went on the Jameson Whiskey Tour, which was very interesting and ...

  • 3

    Week 11

    ... sculptures and weird Narnia looking trees all along the riverside. It was a lovely discovery. Wednesday: Went on an adventure to the Butter Museum! It was a nice little bit of Irish culture that I could check off my list. We also stopped at the cutest ...

  • 4

    Oot n' Aboot

    86 photos

    ... and fries accompanied by a 50’s style diner decor and our very own table top jukebox.  - The Butter Museum. The Butter trade played a huge part in Cork’s history. The museum was ok but would have been better if they had let us churn our ...

  • 5

    Do you like bono? ******!

    2 photos

    ... the battery on my camera fail! bah.. i guess i'll have to remember it) After the castle I bummed around Cork a bit and found the Butter museum. While not super interesting... butter was and is a large part of the irish economy and history. At any ...

  • 6

    Cork City Gaol, Fitzgerald Park

    5 photos

    Cork has a TON of museums, ranging from the artsy (Lew Glucksman) to the odd (Cork Butter Museum?) to, well, to the one I went to on Sunday-- the CORK CITY GAOL, aka the Old City Jail. Its kind of a hike to get up to from UCC, across the river on the ...

  • 7

    We Go To The Cork Butter Museum!

    Now that Sam has settled down and gotten an apartment in Cork, we get to go ...

  • 8

    And I thought churches made me crazy

    13 photos

    ... out fast enough, yet couldn't get my feet to move. Kept roaming on that side of the river, determined more than anything to find the Butter Museum. Yup, you read that right. It's a butter museum. How can you not go to a butter museum? It's like that time ...

  • 9

    And now we're sleeping next to a cemetary.

    ... day, had a (very) light breakfast at the hostel, and went straight to our first stop of the day - the Cork Butter Museum! It was a surprisingly detailed and legitimate museum, with the first part being a video about the development of the butter ...

  • 10

    Cork (Home of the Extreme Driving Challenge)

    14 photos

    ... tower adventure we discovered that we had parked next to the Cork Butter Museum (yes, there really is a Butter Museum!).  Here is was, proof that Ireland really *is*obsessed with butter, it wasn't our American imaginations!  For just a few euro ...