Media Release
For Immediate Release: 3 December 2003
For more information contact Josh Clark, josh@lendac.ie
Lendac Data Systems Announces the Release of Counties in Time, a New CD-ROM Produced for the National Archives of Ireland
Dublin 3 December 2003 – Lendac Data Systems announces the launch of a new CD-ROM product, Counties
in Time: Documents and Commentaries from the National Archives of Ireland. The
software for Counties in Time was created by Lendac Data Systems, in
conjunction with Eneclann, an historical and geneological research company.
The Counties in Time
CD-ROM aims to introduce a sample of the records held in the National Archives
of Ireland to a wide audience. The records chosen exist, in nearly all cases,
for the 32 counties of Ireland, and cover the period from the late sixteenth
century to the mid 20th century.
The CD contains
almost 1000 documents, including sixteenth century Chancery Pleadings,
seventeenth century Books of Survey and Distribution, eighteenth century
Proclamations, nineteenth century Famine papers, and twentieth century records
of the first Dáil. There are scanned images for almost all of the documents,
transcripts for those which are difficult to read, and explanatory
introductions to all of the record classes. There are short illustrated county
histories for each county, covering the period from the late sixteenth century
to the mid-twentieth century. There is a glossary of terms, like
"conacre", "Whiteboy" and "cess", and a timeline
which provides a short chronology of Irish history since the sixteenth century,
and gives details on several key national issues that are referred to in the county
histories. There is a guide to using original records for historical research.
The CD is easy to navigate and user-friendly, with an extensive
"Help" section.
Counties in
Time will be invaluable
for local and family historians in Ireland and abroad, post-primary teachers
and pupils, and individuals interested in Ireland’s archival heritage. The
variety of the documents included, ranging from proclamations against Catholics
holding arms during the penal days to family returns for the 1901 and 1911
Censuses, from the records of seventeenth century land redistribution to police
reports on 1930s IRA activity, and from mid-nineteenth century crime reports to
1867 photographs of Fenian suspects, is testimony to the riches in the custody
of the National Archives of Ireland.
Counties in
Time can be purchased from
http://www.eneclann.ie/publications-8.asp
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