Killeen Farmhouse Cheese is a small farmhouse cheese maker based from a farm on the banks of the river Shannon near Portumna County Galway, Ireland.
[1] Killeen Farmhouse Cheese was begun in 2004 by Marion Roeleveld on a farm on the northern coast of Lough Derg outside Portumna in County Galway.
Roeleveld trained in cheesemaking in her native Netherlands but had no first-hand personal experience in making cheese.
She first started making individual cheese wheels to order and settled on a style of Gouda cheese made from goats' milk from her own herd of around 40 goats and cows' milk from a neighbour's herd.
Roeleveld's uses milk from her herd of Saanen goats, a breed popular in Switzerland.