CIÉ Group Launch Archives Online Catalogue

Following an ambitious programme of conservation, cataloguing, and digitisation, over 166,000 pages of material, dating back to the early 19th century, have been digitised, and thousands of historical documents are now accessible to the public. The platform includes a map-based search tool and a genealogical database of almost 7,000 names, enabling users to explore the stories of those who worked within, or were connected to, Ireland’s transport network.

The online catalogue, charting more than two centuries of Ireland’s transport, industrial, and economic development, features the corporate records of 68 railway companies and 10 canal, tram, and road transport companies, as well as CIÉ’s own board and corporate archives from 1945 onwards. Among the highlights is the first minute book of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway Company, the organisation that built Ireland’s first railway line in the 1830s, a rare record of Ireland’s earliest railway history.

See: CIÉ Group Archives Catalogue