Recorder of Cork

A statute of 1877 stated that wherever possible the recorder should also be the Chairman of the Cork East Riding Quarter Sessions.

The recorder might hold another local office such as Collector of Customs for the Port of Cork.

The first known reference to the office of Recorder of Cork is in a charter of Queen Elizabeth I in 1574, requiring the Recorder (John Meade or Meagh) to act as a "keeper of the peace", justice of oyer and terminer, and justice of gaol delivery.

Hansard (the official journal of the British House of Commons) records an interesting occurrence in 1906 when Mr Tristram Curry, registrar to the recorder, fled from Cork, having embezzled several thousand pounds of suitors funds lodged in Court.

[4] The office of Recorder of Cork was abolished, along with all other recorderships in the Irish Free State, in 1924.