Known for thir superb smoked speciality foods for nearly half a centrury, the Cresswell family's Ummera Smoked Products earned particular acclaim for eel (when available), organic salmon and, more recently, smoked chicken. The Irish Food Writers' Guild selected Anthony Cresswell's Ummera Smoked Silver Eel for a Good Food Award in 2007. Since then a total ban on eel fishing has been imposed in the Republic, for conservation reasons, so smoked Irish eel is the one product you're not likely to find here - all eel currently smoked in Ireland is imported, mostly from Northern Ireland where the ban has not been applied.
Anthony Cresswell's father began smoking and selling a variety of products in the 1970s; Anthony, whose first career was in the wine business, then joined him In the 1980s to develop the smokehouse which he larter moved to its present location. Since then Ummera has grown steadily, gaining a reputation for the excellence of its smoked products and, along the way, winning quite a number of international awards including success at the Great Taste Awards in several years, for their organic smoked salmon,their Smoked Wild Atlantic salmon (also now a rarity) and their Smoked Silver Eel. Whatever Anthony Cresswell and his team have turned their hands to they have done it well and, while the range offered may vary depending on the availaibility of quality raw produce, anything with the Ummera Smoked Products branding on it will be of an exceptionally high standard and with no artificial preservatives.
In 2024 Anthony decided to retire and the business was closed for a short period but,the followoing May, he announced that the smokehouse was reopening under the ownership of their production manager, Sorin Cernela and his wife, Inna.
So, with their long experience of the business, everything will continue as before - to the delight of Anthony and his many happy customers. Products normally available include Smoked Organic Salmon,Organic Gravadlax, Smoked Chicken, Smoked Duck and Smoked Dry Cured Bacon. All are available at a range of outlets in Ireland, and also for direct sales from the Smokehouse.
