Durrus Cheese
Durrus Farmhouse Cheese is a cows’ milk semi soft cheese, made using a Swiss style copper cheese vat and with the curd still cut by hand in the traditional way. Started by Jeffa Gill in 1979 and recognised as one of the finest Irish farmhouse cheeses, Durrus Farmhouse Cheese is a deep-flavoured, natural, rind-washed cheese which is made from top quality local milk from the Friesian herds of two local farmers. The cows are grazed on coastal pastures for up to nine months of the year, and over-wintered in large, airy sheds. Available all year round as a pasteurised cheese, Durrus also make a seasonal raw milk version when the cows are out on grass in the summer.
