Gubbeen Cheese

As a child in Spain, Giana's family had made cheese from goats milk on her father's small farm in the mountains above Alora.  Later, living in France Giana experienced the great french cheeses.

Marrying into a farming family in Ireland, where some of the best milk in Europe is produced, Giana and her husband Tom experimented an produced their own cottage cheeses and fresh cheeses.  They soon met other cheesemakers working both in West Cork and nationally.  This developed into CAIS, the Irish Farmhouse Cheesemakers Guild.

Tom and Giana Ferguson currently make the cheese.  Fingal, their son has recently opened a second business on the premises smoking meats and producing hams, rashers, sausages, salamis as well as planning his own range of pates, etc.  Clovisse, their daughter is the newest addition to the business supplying local restaurants and shops with her organic vegetables and herbs.  Fingal also uses Clovisse's herbs in his traditional cures.

Gubeen cheese and meat products are available for your enjoyment in store at out extensive cheese counter and on our chilled provisions aisle.