Work begins to conserve one of the oldest paper documents on island of Ireland

Sarah Graham, head of conservation at PRONI, conserving one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of Ireland, at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) in Belfast. PA Photo. Picture date: Monday December 16 2024. See PA story ULSTER Archive. Photo credit should read: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Painstaking work has commenced to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of Ireland.

Dating back to the medieval period, the ecclesiastical register belonging to the former archbishop of Armagh Milo Sweetman is around 650 years old.