Category: Historical

In the period 1937-1939 there was a scheme that collected local folklore stories and history through articles written by pupils at national schools. Over 50,000 children took part in this project resulting in over 288,000 pages. The original documents are stored in the National Folklore collection at UCD. However there has been a project to… Continue reading The Schools Collection – Folklore collected by National Schools in 1930s

The RCB (Representative Church Body) is the organisation within the Church of Ireland that is the legal owner of church buildings and property. As you can imagine that a lot of documents have been lodged with them over the years. One of their on going projects has been to digitise architectural drawings that they have… Continue reading Line Drawing of Meenglass Church from 1867