Rare historical records from Mayo will soon be available online
The Achill Missionary Herald is among the items being digitised by Mayo County Library.
Mayo County Library plans to digitise some of its unique historical records and make them available to the public as a major plank of its 2024 Commemorations programme.
The items will be selected based on their rarity, condition, and interest to a wider public.
Among the items proposed for digitisation are the report of the Erris Survey. Carried out between 1990 and 1994 as part of a community response project, the aim of the survey was to research and compile a comprehensive report on the various features of the Erris area including historical, archaeological, environmental, social, and cultural information.
Four volumes of the will also be digitised. Founded by Rev Edward Nangle in 1837 as a means of furthering his Protestant evangelical views, the provides an important insight into the activities of the Achill Mission Colony across several decades and particularly through the Great Famine years.
Also included is 'Land League Boycotting in County Mayo - A Contemporary Police Archive 1880 -1890', which includes boycotting notices and police reports.
The day book for Ballindine RIC Station, a unique 300-page pre-Famine record of the day-to-day workings of an RIC station will be digited as well as an Archaeological Survey of the Belcarra Area.
Poor Law minute books for Catlebar, Claremorris, and Swinford will be given fresh life as well as 10 volumes of the Newport Union Workhouse Ledgers.
A Castlebar Graveyard Survey, carried out in 1988, is likely to be an invaluable resource.
, a book by Rita Nolan that is out of print and always in demand, is to be digitised as will the Enniscoe Agricultural Credit Bank records. The Enniscoe Agricultural Credit Bank (EACB) was established in 1898 and operated until the late 1930s.
It was one of approximately 300 such small-scale, local lending and savings banks around Ireland which were founded by the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society.
