Bay Lough Cheese is an Irish dairy owned and operated by husband and wife, Dick and Anne Keating.
[1] Originally an attempt to provide her family with cheese from their surplus milk, Anne's experiments in cheese making were hampered by a lack of experience and knowledge.
After a number of relatively unsuccessful attempts, an improved cheese was developed that had business potential.
[2] Typically considered a trade that must be taught, the Keating's are Ireland's only self-taught cheesemakers.
[citation needed] They were also among the early adopters of naturally bandaging (coating with wax) cheese.