This multi-award winning seasonal delicacy is much sought after by chefs and home cooks who adore it’s heather-sweetened, seaside seasoned flavour.
The lambs are reared, raised and butchered on the farm. Martin Calvey has spent over 70 years hill-farming on Achill and for many decades Calvey’s have their own on-farm abattoir too. The Calvey family won the national Farming for Nature Award in 2018. Their lamb was honoured with an Irish Food Writers Guild Award in 2022. Many other food accolades include Gold at the Blas na h-Eireann Irish Food Awards and Top Prize 3 Stars at Great Taste Awards 2025.
You can use the multiple-choice order form online to choose how you want your order prepared. You can also have the offal (liver, heart, kidneys) included in the lamb box if you wish. Calvey’s fresh meat products (not frozen) are crafted, packed, labelled and freezer ready and you can fit the packs neatly into your freezer. Each order comes with a customised recipe booklet and an ice-pack included. Taste the flavour of the mountains and the seashore! From our hill top to your table top you just cook it, at Calvey’s we look after all the rest! September is a great time of year to buy our lamb it is bursting with all the exquisite flavours of the island. Don’t be too late Get your order in today!
New Season Achill Mountain Lamb is a sought after delicacy and a finger-licking good one at that, with a strong feel of warm nostalgia in every mouthful. When you taste it, you will remember a time when food had real flavour. These are the New Season 2025 prepared lambs crafted packed and labelled all in a box. Buying at this time of year ensures that you will have the deep freezer well stocked up and you are always Ready Steady Go! whizzing up delicious meals for your family for many many months to come.
Achill Mountain Lamb is the gift of nature and is a genuine artisan meat product. It contains no additives, no colorants, no preservatives and is vaccination free. You also have the reassurance that at Calvey’s we have control of every lamb every step, from the hill top right to your table top. Calvey’s also source mountain lambs from the farming families on Achill Island, whose flocks also graze the free range mountain farm lands on Achill Island.
You can order and buy here on-line. Hopefully the following will answer all your questions, however, if you still have a query please contact Grainne she will answer any question you might have. To contact Grainne please Telephone 098 43158.
| Achill Mountain Lamb carcase |
Can be split/crafted into |
Cooking method |
Hind Quarters
2 lean legs of lamb, with light covering of fat for flavour |
- Shanks
- Fillets
- Can be boned and rolled or cut into strips/lamb steaks
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- Roasting
- Stir fry
- Barbeque
- Grilling
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| Loins |
- 24 chops/cutlets in full carcase
- 12 in a side (approximately)
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- Roasting
- Grilling
- Frying
- Barbeque
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Fore Quarters
2 Shoulders |
- Shoulder can be left whole or split into approx. 10 Gigot chops (2 bags of 5) or crafted into cubes/pieces/strips
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- Roasting
- Stews
- Stir-fries
- Casseroles
- Braising
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| Breast, Neck, Shanks |
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| Fresh Liver and Kidneys |
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We send our Special Recipe Booklet to all our customers featuring easy to follow recipes from well known chefs using Calvey’s Achill Mountain Lamb.
In this purchase you will receive one lamb carcass, butchered into component parts/joints and packed in transparent freezer bags. This offer is excellent value for money, the lamb is packed ready for your deep freeze, labelled and boxed and sent as fresh meat to you. When you receive the boxed lamb you can put the labelled packs into your freezer straight away. It is clearly labelled showing you what’s in each transparent bag.
It keeps in your freezer for a minimum of six months. Everything is done at Calvey’s on-farm abattoir butchers on Achill Island in the old fashioned artisan way.
When you order/buy Achill Mountain Lamb carcases please fill in the instructions sheet so that we can prepare the order tailor-made for you. You will receive your butchered and crafted Achill Mountain Lamb meat in a specially selected biodegradeable insulated box to ensure freshness is not compromised on delivery. From our hill top to your table top, Achill Mountain Lamb, At Calvey’s we do it all!.
Question: When I order this offer Prepared Achill Mountain Lamb Carcass what do I receive and how is it butchered?
Answer:
You will receive a butchered and prepared lamb carcass with all the component parts/joints butchered to your requirements, portion packed in freezer bags,each bag being clearly labelled, including liver and kidneys.
The table sets out clearly what is in a lamb carcass. You will be pleasantly surprised with the amount of lamb meat you will receive,it is genuinely excellent value for money because you are buying direct from Calvey’s On-Farm Abattoir and Butchers.
Exquisite Artisan Lamb Meat crafted & produced by Calvey’s on-farm Abattoir Butchers since 1962 on Achill Island, Ireland. Our flocks feed on coastal heather hilltops and rocky seaweed shores and everything in between. Achill Lamb products are guaranteed succulent and juicy and bursting with the Island flavours. Heather sweetened and Seaside seasoned! For so many reasons Achill Mountain Lamb meat is the Gold Halo Lamb Meat. The Gift of Nature The Craft of Calvey’s.
When ordering please use the comments section for any special requests.
Alternatively you may collect your box of Lamb direct from Calvey’s Butchershop & Farmstore in Keel, on Achill Island. Nationwide delivery can be arranged everywhere throughout the island of Ireland.. Thanks for reading and we are looking forward to preparing your order, and helping you to stock up your freezer, flavour ready for many many family meal times and celebrations!
