A good story to tell at the heart of cheese making

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Jeffa Gill and her daughter Sarah Hennessy in the dairy at Durrus Cheese. 

Jeffa Gill and her daughter Sarah Hennessy in the dairy at Durrus Cheese. 

If ever there was a good story to tell it's that of Durrus Cheese and how it became one of Munster’s favourite foods.

It all began in the early 1970s when Jeffa Gill bought a small farm on the hillside valley of Coomkeen just above Durrus village in West Cork.

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