County Cork Archives and Libraries

Archives
British Newspaper Archive (County Cork) Website: British Newspaper Archive (County Cork)

Cork City and County Archives Seamus Murphy Building 32 Great William O'Brien St Cork Telephone: 021 450 5886 Email: [mailto:archivist@corkcity.ie archivist@corkcity.ie] Website: Cork City and County Archives Website #2: Cork City and County Archives Website #3: Cork City and County Archives


 * The Cork City and County Archives (CCCA) was the first local government archives service established in Ireland and it remains one of the largest such services in Ireland. We preserve over 3.5 kilometers of records, comprising over 1000 individual collections... one of the largest and most important cultural heritage assets held in Cork, or throughout Ireland.

County Cork Genealogy Archives Website: County Cork Genealogy Archives

Ireland Genealogy Projects (County Cork) Website: Ireland Genealogy Projects (County Cork)

The Irish Archives (County Cork) Website: The Irish Archives (County Cork)

Libraries
Ballincollig Library The Village Shopping Centre Ballincollig P31 H674 Telephone: 021 4873024 Email: [mailto:ballincollig.library@corkcoco.ie ballincollig.library@corkcoco.ie] Website: Ballincollig Library Website #2: Ballincollig Library Website #3: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries

Ballyvourney Library Leabharlann Bhaile Bhuirne Baile Mic Ire (Ballymakeera) P12 A782 Telephone: 026 45767 Email: [mailto:leabharlannbhailebhuirne@corkcoco.ie leabharlannbhailebhuirne@corkcoco.ie] Website: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries Website #2: Ballyvourney Library

Bandon Library Shopping Centre South Main Street, Bandon P72 EY28 Telephone: 023 8844830 Email: [mailto:bandon.library@corkcoco.ie bandon.library@corkcoco.ie] Website: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries Website #2: Bandon Library

Bantry Library Bridge Street Bantry P75 K402 Telephone: 027 50460 Email: [mailto:bantrylibrary@corkcoco.ie bantrylibrary@corkcoco.ie] Website: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries Website #2: Bantry Library

Blarney Library The Square Blarney T23 AC97 Telephone: 021 438 2115 Email: [mailto:richard.forrest@corkcoco.ie richard.forrest@corkcoco.ie] Website: Blarney Library Website #2: Blarney Library Website #3: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries

Carrigaline Library Main Street Carrigaline P43 HA25 Telephone: 021 437 1888 Email: [mailto:carrigalinelibrary@corkcoco.ie carrigalinelibrary@corkcoco.ie] Website: Carrigaline Library Website #2: Carrigaline Library Website #3: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries

Castletownbere Library The Square Castletownbere P75 DK33 Telephone: 027 70233 Email: [mailto:castletownberelibrary@corkcoco.ie castletownberelibrary@corkcoco.ie] Website: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries Website #2: Castletownbere Library

Charleville Library Main Street Charleville P56 VA09 Telephone: 063 89769 Email: [mailto:charleville.library@corkcoco.ie charleville.library@corkcoco.ie] Website: Charleville Library Website #2: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries

Clonakilty Library Kent Street Clonakilty P85 XD95 Telephone: 023 8834275 Email: [mailto:clonakiltylibrary@corkcoco.ie clonakiltylibrary@corkcoco.ie] Website: Clonakilty Library Website #2: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries

Cobh Library Arch Building Casement Square Cobh P24 HP29 Telephone: 021 4811130 Email: [mailto:cobh.library@corkcoco.ie cobh.library@corkcoco.ie] Website: Cobh Library Website #2: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries

Dunmanway Library The Square Dunmanway P47 DK83 Telephone: 023 88 55411 Email: [mailto:dunmanway.library@corkcoco.ie dunmanway.library@corkcoco.ie] Website: Dunmanway Library Website #2: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries

Fermoy Library Connolly Street Fermoy P61 C663 Telephone: 025 31318 Email: [mailto:fermoylibrary@corkcoco.ie fermoylibrary@corkcoco.ie] Website: Fermoy Library Website #2: Fermoy Library Website #3: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries

Glanmire Library Hazelwood Shopping Centre Glanmire T45 E033 Telephone: 021 4821627 Email: [mailto:glanmire.library@corkcoco.ie glanmire.library@corkcoco.ie] Website: Glanmire Library Website #2: Glanmire Library Website #3: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries

Kinsale Library Methodist Hall Kinsale P17 KA48 Telephone: 021 4774266 Email: [mailto:kinsalelibrary@corkcoco.ie kinsalelibrary@corkcoco.ie] Website: Kinsale Library Website #2: Kinsale Library Website #3: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries

Macroom Library Railway View Macroom P12 F767 Telephone: 026 42483 Email: [mailto:macroomlibrary@corkcoco.ie macroomlibrary@corkcoco.ie] Website: Macroom Library Website #2: Macroom Library Website #3: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries

Mallow Library Thomas Davis St. Mallow P51 DK50 Telephone: 022 21821 Email: [mailto:mallow.library@corkcoco.ie mallow.library@corkcoco.ie] Website: Mallow Library Website #2: Mallow Library Website #3: Mallow Library Website #4: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries

Midleton Library 81 Main Street Midleton P25 W085 Telephone: 021 4613929 Email: [mailto:midletonlibrary@corkcoco.ie midletonlibrary@corkcoco.ie] Website: Midleton Library Website #2: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries

Millstreet Library Carnegie Hall County Council Offices Millstreet P51 YV99 Telephone: 029 21920 Email: [mailto:millstreetlibrary@corkcoco.ie millstreetlibrary@corkcoco.ie] Website: Millstreet Library Website #2: Millstreet Library Website #3: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries

Mitchelstown Library Sutton's Court Clonmel Road Mitchelstown P67 A663 Telephone: 025 41939 Email: [mailto:mitchelstown.library@corkcoco.ie mitchelstown.library@corkcoco.ie] Website: Mitchelstown Library Website #2: Mitchelstown Library Website #3: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries

Newmarket Library High Street Newmarket Telephone: 029 61090 Email: [mailto:newmarketlibrary@corkcoco.ie newmarketlibrary@corkcoco.ie] Website: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries

Oileán Chléire Library An Sciobairín P51 WN40 Telephone: 028 41006 Email: [mailto:cleirelibrary@corkcoco.ie cleirelibrary@corkcoco.ie] Website: Oileán Chléire Library Website #2: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries

Passage West Library Community Centre Passage West Telephone: 021 4863727 Email: [mailto:passagewest.library@corkcoco.ie passagewest.library@corkcoco.ie] Website: Passage West Library Website #2: Passage West Library Website #3: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries

Schull Library Main Street Schull P81 WP59 Telephone: 028 28290 Email: [mailto:schull.library@corkcoco.ie schull.library@corkcoco.ie] Website: Schull Library Website #2: Schull Library Website #3: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries

Sherkin Island Library Adjacent to the Community Hall Sherkin Island P81 AE02 Telephone: 028 20009 Email: [mailto:sherkin.library@corkcoco.ie sherkin.library@corkcoco.ie] Website: Sherkin Island Library Website #2: Sherkin Island Library Website #3: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries

Skibbereen Library 10 North Street Skibbereen P81 PW10 Telephone: 028 22400 Email: [mailto:skibbereenlibrary@corkcoco.ie skibbereenlibrary@corkcoco.ie] Website: Skibbereen Library Website #2: Skibbereen Library Website #3: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries

Youghal Library Rivergate Shopping Mall North Main Street Youghal P36 FF99 Telephone: 024 93459 Email: [mailto:youghal.library@corkcoco.ie youghal.library@corkcoco.ie] Website: Youghal Library Website #2: Youghal Library Website #3: Branch Services & Mobile Libraries

Museums
Bantry Museum Wolfe Tone Square Bantry Telephone: 027 55564 Email: [mailto:bantryhistorical@gmail.com bantryhistorical@gmail.com] Website: Bantry Museum Website #2: Bantry Museum


 * The museum consists of a collection built up by the local historical society. Among the exhibits are furniture, kitchen utensils, and other pieces from domestic life. Newspapers record mundane events and trivia from Bantry's past. The curators entertain visitors with a mix of historical facts and folklore.

Cape Clear Museum & Archive Cape Clear Island Skibbereen Telephone: 028 39119/021 427 4110 Email: [mailto:capeclearmuseum@gmail.com capeclearmuseum@gmail.com] Email #2:[mailto:logainmneacha@gmail.com logainmneacha@gmail.com] Email #3: [mailto:ccteo@iol.ie ccteo@iol.ie] Website: Cape Clear Museum & Archive Website #2: Cape Clear Museum & Archive


 * Cape Clear Museum Society was set up in 1981 as a voluntary organisation to source, collect, and preserve records concerning all aspects of Cape Clear island life; organise the collection of artefacts of folk, farm, and maritime life and see to their exhibition and preservation; develop an Exhibition Centre and Heritage Archive to house both artefacts and documentation of island interest.

Cobh Heritage Centre Cobh Telephone: 021 4813591 Email: [mailto:info@cobhheritage.com info@cobhheritage.com] Website: Cobh Heritage Centre Website #2: Cobh Heritage Centre


 * Learn about the story of Irish emigration in its various forms to many destinations, trace your ancestors, hear about the ill-fated Titanic and the Lusitania, and immerse yourself in Irish naval and military history.

Cork Public Museum Fitzgerald Park Cork Telephone: 021 427 0679 Email: [mailto:museum@corkcity.ie museum@corkcity.ie] Website: Cork Public Museum Website #2: Cork Public Museum Website #3: Cork Public Museum


 * This simple, rather endearing civic museum is a good place to get an overview of the city’s history. Displays include a few objects from Cork’s ancient past—including an Iron Age helmet and some of the oldest tools ever discovered in Ireland—but it’s strongest when it comes to the traditional crafts made in the city during the 19th and 20th centuries, including silverware and intricate lace from the Victorian period.

Fox's Lane Museum South Cross Road Youghal Telephone: 024 91145 Email: [mailto:plynch003@eircom.net plynch003@eircom.net] Website: Fox's Lane Museum Website #2: Fox's Lane Museum


 * The Fox's Lane Folk Museum is a private museum that follows the development of household appliances before the invention and wider availability of electricity, modern plumbing, and automobiles.

Skibbereen Heritage Centre Old Gasworks Building Upper Bridge Street Skibbereen, West Cork P81 WK06 Telephone: 028 40900 Email: [mailto:info@skibbheritage.com info@skibbheritage.com] Email (Genealogy enquiries): [mailto:skibbheritage1@gmail.com skibbheritage1@gmail.com] Website: Skibbereen Heritage Centre Website #2: Skibbereen Heritage Centre Website #3: Skibbereen Heritage Centre Website #4: Skibbereen Heritage Centre


 * Skibbereen Heritage Centre has two primary exhibitions – one on the Great Famine, the second on Lough Hyne, and also provides a genealogy service for the greater West Cork area.

West Cork Regional Museum The Old Methodist School Western Road Clonakilty Telephone: 023 8833115 Email: [mailto:info@michaelcollinscentre.com info@michaelcollinscentre.com] Website: West Cork Regional Museum Website #2: West Cork Regional Museum


 * This community museum, administered on behalf of the town by a voluntary committee, offers exhibitions relating to the political history of the area from 1800.

For a list of County Cork museums, go to List of museums in the Republic of Ireland in Wikipedia. Click on the arrow in the column heading labeled County to make the listing alphabetical by county name beginning with County Carlow.