Introduction

Cork Past and Present is an online service of Cork City Libraries, providing information on Cork's history, culture, places, people, and events. The site focuses on Cork city and its surrounding areas, providing new textual material as well as digital images, including local photographs, drawings, maps, and advertisements. This continually expanding site, which began in 2004, has more than 200 pages and more than 300 images.

The following is a summary list of useful information on this site:

• Historical maps of Cork City, in scalable formats
• Photographs of city & environs, from 1860 to the present, with accompanying information
• Cork-related images and OCR-text from the Irish Builder (1867-84) and the Illustrated London News (1842-58)
• Outline history of the development of Cork city 
• Bilingual list of 1,400 city street names 
• Bilingual list of townlands in or near Cork city
• Bilingual list of local geographical features
• Old advertisements from city centre businesses
• Business-directory extracts for St Patrick's Street between 1787 & 1997
• Map of the St. Patrick's Street area containing hypertext links
• Lists of historic and current newspapers available in Library
• Guide to tracing family roots in Cork region
• Links to useful current information about Cork

E-mail your comments to corkpastandpresent@corkcity.ie.