The Laggan Co-Operative
At the very end of the nineteenth century the agricultural co-operative movement
began to make progress in Ireland. The Laggan (or Lagan) Co-Operative
Agriculture & Daily Society was founded in 1896, only the second such
co-operative to be established in Ulster. The driving force behind its formation
was an enterprising local farmer named Samuel Marshall. The Sallybrook creamery
was built by the Laggan Co-Operative in the townland of Monclink and in 1900 an
auxiliary creamery was established at Tullyrap. Both of these creameries have
closed.
courtesy of Monreagh Ulster Scots facebook page 2019
