Land Commission records are still working documents

There are no immediate plans to make the 8m or so records of the former Irish Land Commission generally available to the public for research or other purposes, as they are still classified as working documents and have not been handed over to the National Archives.

Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed outlined the position in a written reply to a Dáil question from Richard Boyd Barrett.

The Solidarity-BPB TD had asked the minister if historians and genealogists can have access to Land Commission records held by his department in a warehouse in Portlaoise, Co Laois.