Tidiest Village’s creamery catches eye

AGRICULTURAL roots are being recalled as passers-by on the N7 stop to admire Birdhill, Co Tipperary, Ireland’s Tidiest Village in the Bord Failte-SuperValu National Tidy Town Contest 2006.

The village’s 90-year-old disused creamery has been developed into an eye-catching attraction, with two large murals painted on the building by local artist Anne Barry, who is a farmer’s daughter from Kenmare, Co Kerry.

Appropriately, they depict cows grazing contentedly beside a cottage, and a milkmaid churning butter in the traditional way.