Templegall


Templegall is an Alpine style cheese, rather like a Gruyère, made by the Hegartys and Jean-Baptiste Enjelvin in Cork, Ireland.

We sell two different age profiles of this cheese, current batches are young and mild. Please note that this cheese contains the protein Lysozyme (EGG).

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Raw Cow's MILK, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Vegetarian Coagulant, Lysozyme (EGG)

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Made by Dan Hegarty & Jean-Baptiste Enjelvin

Whitechurch, Co. Cork

We have started a Templegall ageing project at our Maturation Arches and have built shelves which have been specially designed to house the 35kg cheeses. We expect the first batches to be ready in late autumn 2024

Since 2001, Dan Hegarty of Hegarty’s Cheese has been making cheese in Whitechurch, a village on the edge of Cork city, County Cork, using milk from his family’s own herd of Irish Friesian cows, which are tended to by his father, Jim. Until recently, the dairy was devoted to Cheddar cheeses. Then, in 2016, the Hegartys took on a new head cheesemaker, Jean-Baptiste Enjelvin – a Frenchman. Their new cheese, Templegall, bares the mark of that continental influence. Made from raw milk and matured for at least nine months, its 35kg wheels are brushed three times a week, resulting in a cheese with characteristics reminiscent of an Alpine cheese such as a Gruyère. Like the Alpine cheeses it bears a resemblance to, Templegall is made using milk from the summer months only. This is because the pasture-rich diet of the cows at that time of year produces milk that is ideal for this style of cheese-making. Templegall takes its name from ‘An Teampall Geal’ – a literal Gaelic translation of the name of the cheesemaker's local village, Whitechurch.

Starting across 2024, we plan to sell the cheese at two different age profiles: a young and mild profile, which will mainly be available to our wholesale customers, and a more intense and mature profile that we are aging onwards ourselves at our maturation arches in Bermondsey. As the cheese is seasonal, the young cheese should be available from mid-spring, and the older cheese from late autumn.

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