Where to Buy Soft Cheese in Ireland

Dairygold Food Ingredients, based in Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, is a leading supplier of premium cheeses and dairy nutritionals. The company serves global markets and is recognised for its innovation in milk powder, whey, and casein-based products, supporting sectors such as infant formula, sports nutrition, and food manufacturing. Origin Green approval through 31 May 2026.

Internationally recognised St Tola Goat Cheese, is delicious, really good for you, and is founded upon local sustainable farming.

Milleens is a soft, washed-rind cheese made from cows milk on the rugged Beara peninsula of South West Ireland. The complex and delicate cheese is made from the milk of Friesian cows grazing the mountains and pastures of the peninsula. Milleens is the longest established Irish farmhouse cheese.

Origin green is our platform to maintain and increase, how we repay nature. Through animal welfare, community engagement and waste reduction we have aligned our environmental targets with our strategic goals. In this respect, we maintain the quality of our product, while preserving the land and caring for the livestock that assists us in producing this quality.

Velvet Cloud was set up by husband and wife team Michael and Aisling Flanagan. Their grass-fed range of sheep’s milk dairy products is produced on the family farm using fresh sheep’s milk from their flock of lacaune and friesland ewes. Still a relatively young business, their products appear on the menus of some of the top food outlets in the country, including five star Michelin restaurants. Velvet Cloud is available in over 100 retail outlets across Ireland, as well as Daylsford Organic in...

Velvet Cloud is a range of handmade natural sheep’s milk yogurt and cheese. Made on the family farm, just outside of Claremorris in Co. Mayo, where the Flanagan family have been farming for generations. Mayo's mild, wet climate allows the Flanagan’s flock to graze an abundance of grass and clover pastures for almost the entire year.

Origin Green approval through 31 May 2026.

Based just outside Dunmore in north County Galway, Galway Cheese has been crafting an award-winning range of goat and cow milk cheeses since 2013. Fresh milk from two dedicated local suppliers – one for goat milk and one for cow milk – is collected each morning and transformed into cheeses using traditional techniques. Their products, both fresh and aged, have earned multiple awards and are enjoyed by a wide customer base, from Michelin-starred restaurants and luxury hotels to speciality food...

Ballylisk Dairies was set up by brothers Mark and Dean Wright in 2017, to utilise and add value to the exceptionally creamy, high-quality pedigree Holstein milk, produced on the family farm at Ballylisk in the heart of Co. Armagh.

Elizabeth Bradley started cheese making started on her farm at Fenagh in County Carlow in 2005. She uses a neighbour’s milk to make a Gouda-type cheese from raw milk and sells in the local weekly Carlow Farmers Market. This developed further into an on-farm enterprise, milking dairy sheep (Lacaune) to make hard cheddar-type sheep cheese and sheep milk yoghurt. The cow’s milk cheese continues to be made, with the addition of a raw milk cheddar, the milk collected from Dunlavin Dairy, an organic...

Local producer selling through NeighbourFood market in Tipperary.