57,500 Cork county burial records available to public for free

The original pages of the registers can be viewed for each burial.

Members of the public can now log on to skibbheritage.com and search either by individual name or graveyard. File picture: Denis Minihane.

Thousands of burial records from graveyards around Cork county have been made available to the public for free.

The people at Skibbereen Heritage Centre have been digitising over 57,500 burial records from 112 graveyards.