Being a tourist in your hometown: Pat Fitzpatrick's Cork staycation stroll
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Pat Fitzpatrick at The Butter Exchange, Shandon. Picture: Eddie O'Hare
Did you know there was a Butter Exchange in Cork, up by Shandon? It was the largest butter market in the world and operated from 1770 to 1925, buying butter from farmers as far away as Listowel and transporting it all over the world, so that ‘Cork Rose Butter’ was regarded as a premium product, like cheese from Parma or wine from Bordeaux.
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Then I met Dominic from the Butter Museum. Again, it always helps if you find a guide.