Creamery in Arderrawinny, County Cork

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Detached double-pile three-bay double-height former creamery, built 1923, now in use as co-operative shop, builders merchants and storehouse. Pitched corrugated-asbestos roof with concrete coping, ridge ventilation ducts and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed openings with metal fixed pane windows and concrete sills. Square-headed door openings with timber battened double-leaf door and corrugated-iron sliding doors. Enclosed by concrete block walls.

This functional and aesthetically pleasing structure is one of the few relatively intact surviving creameries in west Cork. Creameries were built throughout Ireland from the 1880s into the early twentieth century, due to the efforts of Sir Horace Plunkett and the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society. Drinagh creamery is a notable example of its type and was once an important social and economic focal point for the locality.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20913903

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