Opening Hours and Appointments
Our Public office is open from 10:30 – 12:30 & 14:30 – 16:30 Monday to Friday (excluding Public Holidays).
It is strongly recommended to make an appointment to visit our Public Office & Archive in order to guarantee service. Whilst we will endeavour to serve any customers who arrive to our office without an appointment, priority will be given to appointments first. Our time slots are 10:00 – 11:30, 11:30 – 12:30 & 14:30 – 16:30. Appointments can be made through our online booking system.
Appointment time slots are strictly adhered to as the research space may be allocated to another customer immediately after your visit.
Should you be unable to attend for your booked appointment, please cancel the appointment as we can then offer the slot to another person.
Accessibility
Our office is located at Irish Life Centre, Block 2 Main Plaza, Abbey Street Lower, Dublin 1, D01 E9X0. Our location is wheelchair accessible and toilet facilities are provided.
Please note – There are no car parking facilities for our office.
Plan Your Visit
Watch our short introductory video on the Valuation Archives to learn more about the valuation records available to view during your visit.
Before visiting us to research our records, please bring as much information as possible for the property you’re interested in. This will make finding the property within our records much easier. For rural locations, we would need to know the name of the Townland that you wish to search under or, alternatively, if you can pick the property out on a map, our team will be able to identify the name of the Townland you need to search. If the property is in an urban location, the name of the street should be sufficient to locate the records.
Payments
There are no fees incurred for searching our records, however, if you wish to make copies of the records, this will incur a fee of €1 per image. The preferred method of payment is by card or contactless payment, but we can also process cash payments. There is no charge for taking photos of our records, however, you will be required to fill in an application form that a member of the team will provide.
Arriving at our Public Office & Archive
- You must confirm your appointment with a member of staff upon arrival.
- Only pencils, notepaper and electronic devices for note-taking can be brought to the public office.
- In the instance that the records you wish to research have been digitised, you will be asked to carry out your research at one of our customer terminals. This is to minimise the amount of usage of our physical records. A member of staff will give instruction on how to navigate these digitised records. If the area you wish to research has not been digitised, a member of staff will provide access to the physical books and will explain how these records should be handled.
During Your Appointment
- Treat all customers and Tailte Éireann staff with courtesy and respect at all times.
- Phone calls should be taken outside of the building.
- Our manuscript books are fragile and must be treated with respect due to their historical value.
- Pencils only can be used. Do not use pencil sharpeners or erasers as these may damage the books.
- Use the cushions provided to support book spines.
- Do not lean, mark or write on books. Do not leave any writing materials on books.
- Stack the books neatly and carefully when ready for return and leave them at the station you were using, and a member of staff will return them to the archive. Books should be stacked to a maximum of three high.
- Assistance is available from staff during the appointment time.