Modern building to make archives more accessible

A NEW, state-of-the-art building to store and preserve one of the richest sets of local archives in the country was opened in Cork yesterday.

The new City and County Archives building, which is the first new standalone archive building in the history of the State, is also poised to make the documents more widely available to the public.

The hi-tech facility was developed in Blackpool over the last year to replace the temporary archives premises in the former Christ Church on South Main Street.