Taste your way through Cork’s food history on this special edition of the Cork City Food History Tour.

Old Butter Roads Festival Event

Food Heritage Walking Tour

Join Maire Ni Mhurchu for a two-hour walking tour through Cork city centre, exploring the people, places, foods and drinks that have shaped the city’s remarkable history. Along the way, we’ll stop for food tastings, conversation and stories, bringing Cork’s culinary past to life.

The tour takes in two of Cork’s most important food heritage sites: the English Market and the Butter Museum, while following the story of the city’s development from its earliest days.

Discover Cork’s food and trading history stretching back to the Viking period, and hear how the city grew from a settlement surrounded by medieval walls into the bustling trading centre we know today. We’ll explore where merchants lived and traded, the goods that passed through the city, and Cork’s historic connections to the wider world of food and commerce.

As part of the Old Butter Roads Festival, this special edition also shines a light on Cork’s extraordinary butter-making and trading heritage — and the role the city played in Ireland’s historic butter trade.

Expect history, food, tastings and plenty of stories as we walk through the streets of Cork and uncover the edible history beneath our feet.

Duration: 2 hours

Format: Walking tour with food tastings

Location: Cork City Centre

Description supplied by the event organiser.