Summerhill Farm, Co. Kilkenny
Summerhill
Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny
Grass reared beef
Hereford, Aberdeen Angus and Belted Galloway
Hereford. Angus. Galloway.
Ten months a year on grass
Summerhill Farm, Co. Kilkenny
Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny
Hereford, Aberdeen Angus and Belted Galloway
Hereford. Angus. Galloway.
Ten months a year on grass
Summerhill sits a few miles outside Thomastown, in the river country of south Kilkenny. The cattle are out on grass from spring until the ground turns, and they take their time.
Summer pasture at Summerhill
None of them are quick to finish. That is the reason they are here.
The breed the Williams family had a hand in spreading across Ireland. White face, deep body, and a temperament that suits a life outdoors. It carries fat where it matters and it takes its time getting there.
Mark Williams is the sixth generation of his family to farm at Summerhill. The Williams family have been on that ground long enough to have had a hand in spreading the Hereford breed across Ireland.
He spent more than thirty years choosing beef for other people’s kitchens. In 2018 he stopped sending all of it away and opened a room of his own in Kilkenny, fourteen kilometres from the field.
He still rears the calves, still chooses the cattle, and still picks the cuts himself, one at a time.
Summerhill beef goes to kitchens that want to know the field it came out of. Mark picks every animal himself.
Butcher The Butterslip, Kilkenny
Tell us the kitchen, roughly what you go through in a week, and when you would want to start. Mark answers these himself.
