How to Use Our Online Catalogue

Our online catalogue is much more than just a list of our collection holdings.
While our Catalogue does not contain a full transcript of each item in our collection, the entries in the catalogue are often very detailed and contain a summary of the content of each item including data on people, places, organisations, subjects, and dates, that are mentioned or documented within individual collections/items.
The Catalogue is principally a finding aid for hard copy material, however, many photographs and several written items have been uploaded for viewing within the catalogue
If an online digital copy of an item or collection is available, the catalogue entry will provide a URL link to same. Note that, to date, only a few hundred documents are available online.
If you locate a reference to a hard copy item of interest to your research, you are welcome to request a copy by email, by quoting the item reference number. Charges apply.
Almost 900 collections/fonds and 70,000 items/files/series are fully listed within our Catalogue.
Please note that over 100 of the collection entries in the online catalogue are at collection level only, with the lists of the contents of these collections available separately in the research room or by email on request to archivist@corkcity.ie
Researchers are welcome to contact the archivists by email, who may assist in a search of items that are not yet listed in the catalogue.