How to read these records

Which companies

Two tests, both from the CRO open file: the status is “Liquidation” or “Examinership”, and the last accounts were made up to a date in 2019 or later. Health-care companies are left out.

The date is the date of the status

“In liquidation since” is the date the register status changed. It is close to, but not always the same as, the date the liquidator was appointed.

What the file does not say

Whether the liquidation is voluntary or court-ordered, solvent or insolvent; who the liquidator is; how many people the company employed.

What is not here

Names of liquidators, directors or any individual. Street addresses. Dissolved companies. Companies whose last accounts are older than 2019.