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Concept by PapsLab. Dysart Family Butchers is a fictional business.

What changed
  • A Christmas order docket that works like the paper one on the counter: number of people suggests a turkey, crown or ham size, adds extras, picks a collection day and keeps a running total.
  • Without JavaScript the same page still gives a plain Christmas price list and says phone or call in, so nobody is locked out.
  • Today's opening hours show at the top and update from the real clock (open now, or when we open next); the full week is always on the page.
  • The price list and this week's specials are real text, so they can be read, searched and copied on any phone.
  • The farms the meat comes from are named, with what each one supplies, on a simple map of the Nore valley.
  • One tap to phone the shop, and a plain 'order ahead for collection' rule instead of a form to print.
Dysart Family Butchers · Thomastown Call the shop 056 000 0000

Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny · three generations behind one counter

Nore valley meat, cut by the family in Thomastown.

Dry-aged beef, our own sausages and puddings, dinners ready for the week, and the Christmas turkeys and hams Thomastown orders from us every year. Ring, call in, or fill in the Christmas docket.

Start my Christmas order Call the shop

Open Monday to Saturday, closed Sunday. All hours

A cooked ham glazed and studded with cloves, topped with orange slices, ready for Christmas.
Christmas ham, on the bone. Cured by us, ready to boil or bake.
Order by
Saturday 12 December
Collect
Monday 21 to Thursday 24 December
Pay
When you collect, cash or card
Weighed
On the day, so sizes and prices are a guide

Christmas orders · by Saturday 12 December

Tell us how many are at the table and we will suggest a size.

Phone or call in to order

Ring 056 000 0000 or call into the shop. Tell us how many are at the table and we will tell you what size to get. Order by Saturday 12 December.

The Christmas price list

Order your turkey and ham by Saturday 12 December.

Birds are priced by the kilo and weighed on the day. If yours comes out a little over or under the size on the list, you pay for the weight you get. No deposit, no fuss.

Turkey €13.90 a kilo

  • 4.5 kg€62.50
  • 5.5 kg€76.50
  • 6.5 kg€90.50
  • 8 kg€111.00
  • 9.5 kg€132.00
  • 11 kg€153.00

Turkey crown €19.90 a kilo

  • 2 kg€39.80
  • 2.75 kg€54.75
  • 3.5 kg€69.50
  • 4.5 kg€89.50

Ham on the bone €11.90 a kilo

  • 2.5 kg€29.75
  • 3.5 kg€41.50
  • 4.5 kg€53.50
  • 6 kg€71.50

The extras

  • Sage and onion stuffing, 500 g€6.50
  • Pigs in blankets, 12€7.80
  • Our sausage meat, 500 g€5.90
  • Black and white pudding, a pair€6.40
  • Spiced beef, about 1 kg€22.00

At the counter now

This week’s specials.

We change these on Monday morning and they stay until they are gone. Ring before eleven and we will put it by with your name on the bag.

Call the shop

  • Dry-aged sirloin steak €39.90 / kg

    Hung 28 days on the bone. Cut as thick as you like.

  • Our pork sausages €6.50 / tray

    Made fresh this morning. A tray of 12.

  • Lamb shoulder €21.00 / each

    Bone in, about 1.5 kg. Slow-roast it and forget it.

  • Beef and stout casserole €9.50 / tub

    Made on Tuesday and Friday. Feeds two.

  • Dry-cure back rashers €5.80 / pack

    400 g, thick or thin cut.

From the counter

What we make and what we hang.

Dry-aged beef
Hung on the bone for 28 days in our own chill room, then cut when you ask. Steaks, roasting joints, mince, diced for the stew.Mince from €11.50 a kilo
Sausages and puddings
Made in the back kitchen on the days you would expect. Pork sausages, a spicy one, white pudding and black pudding. Nothing in them you would not put in yourself.Sausages from €6.50 a tray
Lamb and pork
Lamb from spring until the end of the year, pork all year. Shoulders, legs, chops and the thick rashers people drive for.Rashers from €5.80 a pack
Ready meals
Lasagne, shepherd’s pie, beef and stout casserole, chicken and ham pie. Made on Tuesday and Friday, cold in the tub for you to heat at home.From €8.50 a tub
BBQ packs
May to September. Burgers, sausages, chicken skewers and ribs boxed for six or ten. Order the day before and we will have it cold and ready.Back in May
Order ahead
Ring by eleven for same-day collection, or the day before for anything big. We bag it with your name on and keep it cold until you call.Phone 056 000 0000
The River Nore at Thomastown, flowing past grassy banks and a ruined stone tower, seen from the bridge.

Where the meat comes from

Four farms, all a short drive from the shop.

We buy from farmers we know by name, mostly in the valley of the River Nore between Kilkenny and Inistioge. They know what we want, and we know whose field it came out of. Ask at the counter and we will tell you which farm your steak came from.

  • Walsh family, KilfaneHereford-cross steers on grass. All of our beef.
  • Cullen’s, StoneyfordPigs for the sausages, rashers and puddings.
  • Maher’s, InistiogeHill lamb, from spring.
  • Kavanagh’s, MullinavatFree-range bronze turkeys, reared for our Christmas orders.

Farm names are invented for this concept. The map is not to scale.

Cattle grazing on green pasture in rolling Kilkenny countryside under a cloudy sky.
This is what the beef eats until it is ready: grass, in fields you can see from the road.

Visit us

Opening hours.

We are in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. Open Monday to Saturday, closed Sunday.

Opening hours
Monday8:30am – 5:30pm
Tuesday8:30am – 5:30pm
Wednesday8:30am – 5:30pm
Thursday8:30am – 5:30pm
Friday8:30am – 6:00pm
Saturday8:00am – 5:00pm
SundayClosed

Christmas week: Monday 21 to Wednesday 23 December we open 8am to 6pm. Thursday 24th, 8am to 4pm. Closed Christmas Day and St Stephen’s Day.

Get in touch

Call 056 000 0000

Email [email protected] for anything that can wait until we are back at the counter. For orders, phone is quickest.

Directions to Thomastown

We are in the town centre. Park on the street or in the town car park and walk over.