One hundred years in the making

THE year 1913 was just over a week old when a group of farmers and townspeople met in Nenagh, Co Tipperary, to assess the level of support for the building of a creamery.

Support for the proposal was encouraging because local dairy farmers were at the time sending their milk to other processors four or five miles away.

The tractor and trailer era had yet to come, and local farmers had to take their churns of milk to the creameries on carts pulled by horse or donkey.