Treasure trove goes online in archives move

Family records, historical documents and items from clubs and societies going back centuries are gaining more relevance as their contents are being detailed online.

More than 1,000 collections — varying from a single document to 800 boxes — are stored and preserved in the country’s first standalone archive building in Blackpool on the northside of Cork City.

But work is progressing steadily to provide an insight into their contents, through the cataloguing work of staff at Cork City and County Archives.