Cork City and County Archives Service (CCCA) is a major cultural heritage institution holding archive collections of both local, regional, national, and international significance. CCCA is operated by Cork City Council, and it is also a shared service that is equally funded and supported by Cork City Council, Cork County Council and University College Cork.
CCCA is responsible for the proper management, custody, care, and conservation, of Cork’s local archives, and for making those archives appropriately available for research and public inspection. The archive collections held comprise mainly:
- Local government records that have been selected for permanent preservation and transferred to CCCA by Cork City Council and Cork County Council and other Cork local authorities, including records from defunct local authorities and any of their precursor agencies;
- Archives from Cork acquired from organisations and individuals by donation, loan, purchase, or bequest.
CCCA collections date back, in some cases, 400 years or more, with the majority of the material dating within the 1750 to 1990 period. The collections are both completely unique, and exceptionally rich and diverse. CCCA is also responsible for developing and delivering Council records management services.
The management and operation of CCCA is a large and complex task, given the range of services delivered, and the huge volume of archives in the collection, consisting of several hundred thousand items in various formats such as files, bound volumes, manuscripts, ephemera, photographs, maps, plans, drawings, audio and visual recordings, plus electronic images, recordings, and documents. The collection is the largest held by a local government archive in Ireland, and the Cork City and County Archives is considered to be the leading local authority led archives service in the state.
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People and Organisation Development Directorate, Cork City Council