City Archives

• Mount St Lawrence Burial Ground Registers 1855-2008
• Digital Archive Collections
• Collections Database
• Current Projects
• Collection Lists
• Religious Society of Friends (Quakers): Limerick
• Limerick City Street Names, Gerry Joyce

DIGITAL ARCHIVE COLLECTIONS

Limerick City Council is the first local authority in Ireland to make archive collections available online. The digitised collections are freely available to the public to promote research into the history of Limerick City via a virtual archive. 

DjVu

A DjVu viewer is required to view and print files in DjVu format. DjVu (pronounced "déjà vu") is a digital document format with advanced compression technology and high performance value. DjVu allows for the distribution on the Internet and on DVD of very high resolution images of scanned documents, digital documents, and photographs. DjVu viewers are available for the web browser, the desktop, and PDA devices.

You must have administrative rights to your PC in order to install this plugin. Please contact your IT department if you encounter any issues.

New Additions
More items added to our online resources.

About Limerick City Archives                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Limerick City Archives provides for the collection and preservation of archives relating to Limerick City  and makes archives available to the public. Archives are the raw material of history and the archives service is committed to preserving and documenting the past to ensure that the history of the city is accessible to its citizens.

Collections

Limerick City Archives has a large collection of material relating to its parent body - Limerick City Council and it has also collected archive material relating to older administrations including Limerick Union, Limerick Rural District Council, private papers and collections relating to the commercial and cultural aspects of life in Limerick City.

  Acquisition Policy (MS Word - 20 Kb)
    Limerick City Archive Acquisition Policy

Contact

Jacqui Hayes
Limerick City Archivist
Limerick City Archives
Phone: (061) 407293
email: archives@limerickcity.ie

Archives for Limerick City

Phone: (061) 407293
Fax: (061) 415266
email: jhayes@limerickcity.ie

Opening hours:
By Appointment

Address:
Archives for Limerick City
City Hall
Merchant’s Quay
Limerick,
Ireland