Limerick Archives

Limerick Archives (formerly Limerick Regional Archives/Limerick City Archives) is part of Limerick City and County Council. Its purpose is to collect and preserve archival material relating to Limerick city, and to make these archives freely available to the public. The physical archives are held in the Granary building on Michael Street.

Limerick Archives holds a large amount of archival material relating to the Limerick City Council as well as older administrations such as Limerick Union. Materials in the collection include Limerick Rate Books, Registration of Motor Vehicles, private papers, such as Limerick Chamber of Commerce, Bedford Row Lying-in Hospital. The Limerick Archives collections has been used for source material for publications, as well as stand alone publications.

Digital Collections: In 2008 Limerick City became the first locality in Ireland to make its archives available online. These collections are separated into 1. Limerick City Council and Local Government Collections, and 2. Private Papers and Business Collections. They have also digital archives of newly created material such as the Limerick Leader 1970s photograph collection under the name From Limerick with Love.

Exhibition and Publication . Ranks: A Community Story, March 2012, exhibition held at the Hunt Museum. This exhibition won ‘Best Publication/Interpretation Award 2012 by the Industrial Heritage Association of Ireland This exhibition was rehung in September 2015.

Exhibition. St Joseph’s Hospital was founded as Limerick District Lunatic Asylum in 1827, exhibition held in Limerick Museum in March 2013 as the records had been transferred from the Health Service Executive (Ireland) to Limerick Archives

Database and Conference. The Mount saint Lawrence project began in 2008 with the transfer of the burial records of Limerick's largest cemetery to Limerick Archives. The Limerick Archives digitising the original records and putting them online. In collaboration with Mary Immaculate College about 70,000 burials were transcribed and a database was launched in August 2013. In April 2014, an international conference on death and burial called Beyond the Grave was organised by Limerick Archives and Mary Immaculate College to coincide with the launch of the Mount Saint Lawrence grave marker database.

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