Carved wooden butter stamp

"This is a butter stamp which belonged to my family and would have been used to mark the butter upon being churned. My Great Great Grandfather and those before him transported firkins of butter to Cork along the Old Butter Road also known as the Old Kerry/Cork Road. The distance of the trip was over 70 miles from Castleisland to Cork City where the butter was exchanged and auctioned off to the highest bidder. The butter was mostly sent to Britain's colonies such as Jamaica or Barbados where the climate was unsuited to dairy farming. The transport of butter by horse and car became effectively obsolete in the 19th Century with the advent of railway but the name "Carman" continued to live on through my people afterwards and I still hear the occasional person refer to my family members e.g. my grandfather as Jack "The Carman" Flynn."