Our Cheeses

Our Premium Range

Knockanore Cheese is a hard-pressed, mature farmhouse cheese made in the cheddar style, using raw cow’s milk. Knockanore’s more-ish, subtle flavour and rich creamy texture offers a real taste of the lush farmland on which the cows graze. It comes in mature white, mature red and perhaps most famously Oakwood smoked.
Knockanore Irish Oakwood Smoked Raw Milk Cheddar

Irish Oakwood Smoked Raw Milk Cheddar

Knockanore Irish Oakwood Smoked Raw Milk Cheddar is a raw milk hard cheese, made using milk from our own herd of cows at our farm. The flavours are deeply smoky, combining perfectly with the mellow tang of the cheese.

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Knockanore Farmhouse Cheese Mature White Cheddar

Irish Mature Raw Milk White Cheddar

Knockanore Irish Mature Raw Milk White Cheddar is a raw milk hard cheese, made with milk from our own herd of cows at our farm. The flavours are mild, subtle, sweet and creamy, but it has enough of a tang to satisfy real cheese lovers.

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Knockanore Farmhouse Cheese Mature Red Cheddar

Irish Mature Raw Milk Red Cheddar

Knockanore Irish Mature Raw Milk Red Cheddar is a raw milk hard cheese, made with milk from our own herd of cows at our farm. The flavours are mild, subtle, sweet and creamy, but it has enough of a bite and a tang to satisfy real cheese lovers.

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Our New Range

Bride Valley Irish Pasteurised Cheddar is matured and carefully blended by Eamonn and his team at Knockanore. It is available in the following flavours: Naturally smoked using oak chips, black pepper and chives, garlic and herb, sundried tomato, black pepper and rosemary, roasted onion and caraway seed. We will be adding to this range.
Bride Valley- Irish Cheddar naturally smoked using Oak chips

Irish Cheddar Naturally Smoked using Oak chips

Irish pasteurised cheddar made from grass fed summer milk, naturally smoked using locally sourced Oakwood chips.

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Bride Valley Cheese - Irish Cheddar with Garlic & Herbs

Irish Cheddar with Garlic & Herbs

Mild and subtle cheddar with sweet creamy tones and pleasant herb and garlicky flavours.

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Bride Valley Cheese - Irish Cheddar with Black Pepper & Chives

Irish Cheddar with Black Pepper & Chives

The cheese is mild with subtle, sweet and creamy tones with notes of black pepper and chives.

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Bride Valley - Irish Cheddar with Sundried Tomatoes, Rosemary & Black Pepper

Irish Cheddar with Sundried Tomatoes, Rosemary & Black Pepper

Irish cheddar with the lovely intense sweet – tart flavour of sundried tomatoes with woody pine like undertones imparted from the rosemary and finished with piquant black pepper.

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Bride Valley - Irish Cheddar with Roasted Onions & Caraway Seeds

Irish Cheddar with Roasted Onions & Caraway Seeds

This cheddar features the umami savoury flavour of roasted onion with a background hint of earthy, mild anise flavour from the caraway seeds.

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Bride Valley- Irish Cheddar with Horseradish and Rosemary

Irish Cheddar with Horseradish & Rosemary

Irish Cheddar with Horseradish and Rosemary balances the biting pungency of Horseradish and the piney aroma of Rosemary.

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Why is Knockanore Cheese unique?

  • The quality of land on which the cows graze on the farmlands of the Knockanore valley and the pastures along the Blackwater River.
  • The pedigree herd of Friesians which the Lonergan family have worked so hard to build through careful breeding and selection.
  • The use of raw milk to produce the cheese which adds a subtle layer of complexity.
  • The traditional processes used in cheese making, combined with the use of modern techniques in the long maturation period of the cheese, all taking place within a modern and purpose built facility on the farm.