Cork City & County Archives

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Funded by Cork City Council, Cork County Council & UCC
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Collections

Recently Listed Collections

Descriptive lists have recently been prepared for the following collections/series :

Sean Punch, IRA man, personal autograph book, including his time in Gormanstown Camp and Mountjoy, 1923 - 1924     U89 List
James Huleatt, Survey of Cork City Walls, 1733   SM646 List
House of Industry and Lunatic Asylum, financial ledger, 1828 - 1831  U500 List
Cork City Council Register of Honorary Burgesses (Freemen), 1930 - 2011   CP/CO/FR List
Hilda Buckley, Ballet scrapbooks, 1947-1992  PR/HB
Robert Bennett, Recorder of Cork, note book 1841 - 1843  U21 List
Tom Barry (senior IRA commander). MSS.   U16 List
Cork County Committee of Agriculture.  This organisation played a major role in agricultural development in Cork from 1901 - 1980.  CC/CM/AG List  
John Brown collection.  Head Constable in the Royal Irish Constabulary in Cork from c1890 - 1922. Includes accounts of riot against army recruitment in 1917, and events on the night of the Burning of Cork in December 1920, and other material.   U97 List
Brother Allen Deposit (O'Connell Collection)  Various items from 19th century relating to the O'Connells of Derrynane, Coppingers and others.   U4 List
Charleville Electoral Division Rate Books, 1842 and 1848   U92 List
Board of Guardian collections relating to workhouses and poor law unions from across County Cork, c.1838 - c.1923

Cork City Council (Cork Corporation) Minute Books, 1710- 1732, 1901- 1906, 1912 - 1984 CP/CO/M List

Cork Council of Trade Unions, minute books, etc., 1915 - 1988    U216 List

Cork County Council Minute Books, 1899 - 1997  CC/CO/M List

Cork Spinning and Weaving Company, (1840s) 1868-1918  B530 List

Cork Model School, pupil and teacher training records, 1865 - 1990   NS/MS List 
Curwens Solicitors (mainly leases and deeds relating to property in Cork City, north Cork and Kerry, various estates), 1715 - 1909    U708 List
Hely Hutchinson Cork Electors MS., c.1783   SM768 List  (Also online)
JT Horne collection: Theatre scrapbooks, posters and memorabilia, 1871 - 1933    U201 List
Viscount Lismore (Tenant letters), 1880s    U68 List
Thomas Lyons (First Roman Catholic Mayor of Cork). Correspondence from Daniel O'Connell MP and others re. Repeal campaign, 1832 - 1850  SM775 List
Midleton Charter, early copy of, 1670   U336/1 List
O'Flynn Exham Solicitors (very large collection relating to numerous places, estates, families and properties), (1356) c.1500 – 1910 (c.1956)  U229 List
Preston Collection (Solictors papers, large collection of deeds and legal documents),  (1611) 1716 – 1962  U195 List

Vanderplas Cork Deeds Cork City, 1598-1694   U675 List