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Clogga Creamery Pictures:

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J. Hearne & J. Kinsella(1950-60's)	Creamery	Creamery	Creamery

The building is made from native sandstone and red brick around the windows. It closed in 1987, although for a number of years after this, farmers would bring their milk in tanks to the Creamery site at a set time where it was then taken by large creamery tankers.

In its day, the creamery was a hive of activity in a hinterland of family farms. In the latter years of its existence its main function was that of a store which sold animal foods for cattle etc. A telephone (pay phone) was also installed in the creamery in the 1960s which was a vital source of communication for the local people in the area. The telephone in the Creamery also allowed people to send telegrams worldwide (via Mooncoin), making the world a much smaller place. Clogga creamery has now been converted into a family home.

Managers of Clogga Creamery:
Andy Wall (from cork, the first manager), John Murphy, Mick Sheehan, John Duggan of Templeorum, John Murray, Dick McGrath, Stephan O' Connor and William Drennan.

Some of the employees were John Kinsella, who started working in creamery in March 1943 and continued for 26 years until his retirement in 1968, John Murphy and John Walsh.

In July 1924 Clogga had 105 milk suppliers. The price per gallon was ranged from 6.75d to 7.35d. The average sums of money owed by individual suppliers from £7, 2s 4d, to £67 10s 7d.

Clogga had 123 milk suppliers in 1932. The number remains stable at 122 suppliers in 1976. Not every farmer had the bulk tank in 1976. The 10 gallon silver aluminium churns and the circular bulk tank behind the tractor or car, was a familiar sight at the creamery in the 1970s. Milk transported by tractor and by car in the 1960s, replaced the pony, horse or donkey drawn cart of the five decades previously. From the late 1980s the bulk tank in the farmers yard eliminated milk collection at the creamery, thus ending a way of life in rural Ireland.

In July 1924, Clogga creamery had 114 suppliers, drawn from the townlands of Riverquater, Emil, Cloncunny, Cashel, Tobernabrone, Lickawn, Dowling, Tubrid, Barabehy, Knockanure, Barnacole, Clogga, Cloneen, Barronswood, Coolfraheen, Ardera, Kilcraggin, Ballytarsney, Grange, Silverspring, Affady, Nicholastown, Gragavine and Ballynaboley.