Cork Butter Museum

This small museum in the historic Shandon district tells the story of Ireland's butter trade, which once made Cork one of the largest butter markets in the world. Set beside the former Butter Exchange, it traces the industry from farmhouse production to the vast export trade that shipped Irish butter across the globe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Exhibits include a thousand-year-old keg of bog butter and displays on the cooperative movement that reshaped dairying. The domed rotunda nearby recalls the trade's former importance.