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32 Great William O'Brien Street
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Ireland

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Cork City and County Archives grew from the original 1971 body, Cork Archives Council, and it was one of the first archives services to be set up in Ireland, reflecting Cork’s exceptionally rich archival and cultural heritage, and an age-old tradition of learning in the region.

The day to day operation of the Archives is carried out by Cork City Council, but the Archives is a shared service and has been equally funded since its inception by each of its parent institutions, Cork City Council, Cork County Council and University College Cork. Cork Harbour Commissioners, now Port of Cork, were also originally involved in setting up the Archives.

Legislative Basis
Since 1994, it has been a statutory obligation and function of all local authorities to make arrangements for the proper management, custody, care and conservation of records and archives, and public inspection of archives, including both local authority records, and archives donated or deposited by local organisations and individuals. The Archives now operates under the terms of Section 80 of the Local Government Act 2001 which came into effect on 1 January 2002.

Local Authority records may be scheduled for transfer to the Archives by local government departments under the thirty year rule and are usually produced for public inspection once properly conserved and listed. Public access to archives is also regulated by the Data Protection Act 1988 and 2003, where closure periods or access restrictions for longer than 30 years may be applied to records if they contain information that may be distressing or defamatory to living persons named within. Under the Freedom of Information Acts, personal information from such records may be released to the subject or to those authorised by the subject.

The involvement of UCC in funding the Archives reflects the fact that we are a key repository for research by by students and staff of the university, and other colleges and schools local, national, and international.

In 2006, the Archives moved to a new purpose built centre, the Seamus Murphy Building, that offers the most modern facilities for the preservation and use of archives.
Our Collection: One of Cork’s Most Important Cultural Heritage Assets
Archives are composed of the naturally accumulated records of an organisation generated in the course of its activities, that have been selected for permanent preservation. These unique documents contain a wealth of information and historical evidence about Cork’s institutions, places, people, families, and events, that is not found elsewhere.

Our archive, now comprising nearly 4 kilometers of records, is one of the largest and most important cultural assets held in Cork. Collections include local authority archives from Cork City Council and Cork County Council, and various defunct local authorities such as the Workhouses/Poor Law Guardians. Also held are major collections of personal papers, business records, landed estate papers, solicitors’ papers, the records of various local non-governmental organisations, labour unions, charitable bodies and school records. Most aspects of the social, political, commercial and cultural history of Cork are represented to a degree within the collection.
Genealogy and Family History
The Archives is an important centre for genealogical research as many of our records contain unique personal and genealogical information for example;
• Solicitors’ records including deeds
• Landed estate records
• Cemetery registers
• Workhouse registers
• Hospital registers
• Business records

St.Joseph’s Cemetery Register, 1914


Developments and Achievements since 2006

Since the Seamus Murphy Building opened in 2006, the Archives has achieved its strategic objectives in all areas, despite the negative economic conditions prevailing since 2008.

In particular, the Archives has been most successfull in securing the donation and deposit of archives from both local government offices, and from local organisations and individuals. Since 2006, nearly 350 new collections have been acquired, including several very large sets of archives, such as
• Port of Cork/ Cork Harbour Commissioners
• Cork Savings Bank
• Cork Chamber of Commerce
• St. Josephs Cemetery
• Cork City Council, corporate, rates, roads, architects
• Cork County Council corporate, planning, rates,
• Town Councils in Fermoy, Cobh, Kinsale, Mallow, Bandon
• Bennetts of Ballinacurra business records
• School Records
• Beamish & Crawdford Brewery records
• Our Ladys Hospital Records
• Sporting archives such as Cork Constitution RFC, Cork Golf Club
• Additional Ryan-Purcell landed estate archives
• Electoral registers, City and County
• Photographic collections from the Cork Examiner, AH Jones
• Several solicitors collections
• Personal archives such as the Eamonn Lankford local history collection
• Trade Union archives from Stonemasons, etc

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