File 1 - Field notebooks - Mapping

23 items (3 folders)

Twenty-three notebooks collating the information Tim Robinson gathered in his field research of Connemara. This mostly relates to his map work. Some of the notebooks have been indexed using letters, so this file is arranged in alphabetical rather than chronological order. The notebooks' contents, as described on the cover are transcribed below:

Connemara A: Griffith's Union of Galway (Killanin, Killcummin), Union of Oughterard, Altóir (wedge grave in Cashel), Petty's map names, Congested Districts Boards Reports for Knockboy, Ogygia, Lace Schools (undated).

Connemara B: Field Name Books for Moyrus, Killanin, Kilcummin, Hamilton Grave, Tower Ceann Gulam, Ros a Mhíl, Drawing of Tower Ros a Mhíl (undated).

Connemara C: Poems from Connemara Patrick Kelly (1879-1940), 1820 census, phone numbers (to Dec 1990).

D: Knockboy, Notes from Westropp lecture, MacGonigal biography, Derryinver cist, Caroline Blake 'Interrupted Wedding', notes on Clifden buidlings, rectors of Omey, Hyacinth Darcy memorial, references for Na Leachtaí, Knockboy, Leenane, Kylemore Abbey history, Glencraff, Leenane notes (Fr Costelloe), Nora Keane (Mám) notes, Willy Crawford (Mám) notes, Mary Keane, Mám Hotel Register, Salruck, Thompsons, Lettergesh placenames, Leenane Sketchmap (undated).

DD: Places on Errisbeg (O'Donnell), Notes on Mám Éan, Ballynahinch, L. Scaimhe crannógs, Galway Vindicator 1880, 1st edition OS maps of South Connemara, Blake Family records, Casement, William O'Malley Ballinfad, Moyard Graves (undated).

E: Ballynakill notes, D Wentworth Thomson on Inishlackan, Letterfrack sketchmap, Ballynafad graves and chapel, Captain O'Malley (notes from ms) Nov 1985.

G: OS Name Books Moyrus, IRA, Clifden area megaliths, 1981 census figures, D. Mac Giolla Easpaig's notes (undated).

Moyrus Bk 2 (Omey and Ross): T S Ó Máille's notes, Irish Architecture Archive photos (undated).

H: OS Name Books Ballynakill continued, Omey. Galway Archaeological Survey checklist, notes from the northern sheets of the OS 6 inch 1st edition maps, lighthouses, Redington Inishbofin wreck (Undated).

J: Ó Máille's Den, Berridges Ledgers (from April 1987).

K: Wakeman in West of Ireland, Land Commission Records, Dela McAuley, O'Donovan, Petrie, App to 10th report of Irish Fisheries 1829 (undated).

Connemara c. 1984: drawings of tombstones and phone numbers.

Connemara July 1986: Errislannan.

Connemara 1991: Four Masters on Aran, and Tallaght Martyrology on Enda, 1821 Census, Kilmurvey House (see P120/3/1/1).

Fieldwork notes: OS Field Name Book for Ross Parish, Moyriss, Kilcummin Parish (undated).

Fieldwork notes: Mullaghglass (undated).

Fieldwork notes: Townlands in Parishes of Kilcummin, Killannin, Cong and Ross (undated).

Fieldwork notes: Kilcummin Parish (Moycullen Barony) undated.

St Enda, Gleann Oidhreach alignment (undated).

The Blakes of Tully, Micheál Bairéad (Irish and English) undated.

Inis Leacan '04, and Inis Ní Houses (c. 2004).

UCD folklore collection, Derryclare lichens, Marconi site flora, Derryclare notes, Connemara marble notes (c. 2005).

Scrap notebook containing lists of art work, phone numbers etc.

Open

P120/3/3; P120/3/1/1

Catalog

10/01/2018
25/06/2025