# Dúchas API — National Folklore Collection (operated by DCU)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/ucd/duchas/  
**Provider:** University College Dublin — https://apis.io/providers/ucd/  
**Documentation:** https://www.duchas.ie/en

Dúchas API — National Folklore Collection (operated by DCU) is one of 6 APIs that [University College Dublin](https://apis.io/providers/ucd/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Cultural Heritage, Folklore, Tenant, Withdrawn, and Ireland. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The National Folklore Collection (Cnuasach Bhéaloideas Éireann) is held at UCD; the Dúchas digitisation platform and its API are built and operated by DCU's Gaois research group. THE API IS WITHDRAWN. Verified 2026-08-30: https://www.duchas.ie/api/v0.5/api, /api/v0.6/api, /api and /api/v0.5/cbes all return HTTP 500 IIS error pages, and the v0.6 documentation states in its own words that this "is a prerelease version of the Dúchas API that is no longer available", with a v1.0 release pending and data dumps available on request in the interim. The June 2026 profile read that 500 as "live but gated" and saved six per-tag OpenAPIs plus twelve collections and their derived schemas, structures, examples, rules, vocabulary, JSON-LD and agentic-access files under UCD's slug — thirty-four files describing another university's contract for an endpoint that does not answer. All of them were removed on 2026-08-30. The relationship is kept; the contract is not.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.gaois.ie/en/data/duchas/v0.6/api
- **Website** — https://www.duchas.ie/en
- **x-operator-organization** — https://www.dcu.ie/fiontar-scoil-na-gaeilge

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- [Research Repository UCD — OAI-PMH 2.0](https://apis.io/apis/ucd/oai-pmh/)
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- [UCD Digital Library collection data exports](https://apis.io/apis/ucd/digital-library-data/)
- [Research Repository UCD — DSpace-CRIS REST API (4Science)](https://apis.io/apis/ucd/dspace-rest/)
- [UCD Library discovery (Serials Solutions / Clarivate)](https://apis.io/apis/ucd/library-discovery/)

## Tags

Cultural Heritage, Folklore, Tenant, Withdrawn, Ireland

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/ucd/duchas/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/ucd/.