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Six drafts of:

'Towards a Map of South Connemara

1. The Tangled Tightrope
2. Walking out to the Islands'

All drafts have the same date of 16 Jan 1981, but the evolution of the writing can be traced from the first, handwritten draft, through each of the subsequent typed versions.

Handwritten notes with costs, and quotes from several printing companies with the cost of setting and printing the manuscript 'Mapping South Connemara'. This file includes a specification of the print order.

Six folders containing 56 maps, all annotated six inch OS maps. The maps are mainly the 1965 and 1966 editions with a small number from the 1974 and 1978 editions. Some of the maps in this file are photocopies that are sellotaped together. All maps contain edits that mark in additional features and placenames. The file begins with a fragment of the Ordnance Survey sheet index for Co Galway, with Robinson's handwritten notes listing the sheets he will require for his mapping project.

The following description lists the sheet numbers, number of copies, and date of publication of each OS map. Paragraph breaks indicate a new folder:

Sheet numbers: one copy of Sheet 9 B C D (undated); two copies of Sheet 9 A (1965), two copies of Sheet 10 and 10A (1965 and 1979), two copies of Sheet 11 (1965), two copies of Sheet 12 & 13 (1965).

Two copies of Sheet 21 (1966), one copy of Sheet 21a (undated), two copies of Sheet 22 (1965), two copies of Sheet 23 (1983), two copies of Sheet 24 (1965), two copies of Sheet 25 (1965), one copy of Sheet 26.

One copy of sheet 34 and a photocopy of the section of this map that covers Turbot (1965), two copies of Sheet 35 (1977), two copies of Sheet 36 (1965), two copies of Sheet 37 (1965), two copies of Sheet 38 (1965), two copies of Sheet 39 (1966).

Photocopied section of an unidentified map with annotations, the notepaper is from Aillebrack Marine Services Ltd. Sheet 48 and also a photocopy of a section (1965), two copies of sheet 49 (1966 and 1982), two copies of Sheet 50 (1965), one copy of Sheet 51 (1966), one copy of sheet 52 (1974), two copies of Sheet 53 (1966).

Section of Sheet 62 (date not available), two copies of Sheet 63 (1965), Sheet 64 (1966), Sheet 65 (1966), Sheet 66 (1966).

Sheet 76 (1966), Sheet 77 (1965), Sheet 78 (1965), Sheet 79 (1965), Sheet 89 (1965), Sheet 90 (1978), Sheet 91 (1966).

Large sellotaped map entitled 'Diocese of Tuam, Parish Boundaries in Connemara'. This is an Ordnance Survey with parishes outlined and identified by hand.

Two copies of the Index map for Co Galway showing the OS 6 inch sheet numbers. Both contain Robinson's notes that indicate the areas he has completed fieldwork on as of 1986, and the areas left to be surveyed.

A list of maps available from the Geological Survey of Ireland, and prices, and a catalogue for Phoenix maps.

File of fragments and tracings of OS maps of Carna and Cill Chiaráin. Each item contains several of Robinson's annotations. Robinson's indexing systems gives the sheets the following numbers: 64H, 64I, 76(2 copies), 76B (2 copies), 76 B/C, 76C, 76C/E, 76D (3 copies), 77 (2 copies), 77C, 77D, 77F, 77G, 89A. Further sections that are unmarked, covering the areas of Áird Mór.

A note from Gerard Jennings enclosing edits on a copied map of the area, dated 19 July 1989.

File of fragments and tracings of OS maps of Roundstone, Tuaim Beola, Inis Ní, and Westwards, Deer Island. Each item contains several of Robinson's annotations. Robinson's indexing systems gives the sheets the following numbers: 63, 63B, 76A, though most of the maps are not indexed. Three of the maps are marked 'Errisbeg' placenames, and a note that some of the information was gathered in the Summer of 1988. A list of Errisbeg Gardens by Cynthia and John Conneely, with attached section of map, and the listed gardens marked out.

File of photocopied sections of magnified OS maps, entitled 'Errisbeg Working Copy'. These are not annotated, but the magnification shows gradients.

File of fragments and tracings of OS maps of Maighros, Glinsce, O Mhic Dara, and Muinis. Each item contains several of Robinson's annotations. Not all of the map sections are indexed using Robinson's numbering systems, but the ones that are have been grouped together at the start: 63, 63E, 64 (2 copies), 64B, 64C, 64G.

File of fragments and tracings of OS maps of Ros a Mhíl. Each item contains several of Robinson's annotations. Robinson's indexing systems gives the sheets the following numbers:66B, 66G, 90C, 90C1, 90F, 90I, 91 (2 copies), 91A/F (2 copies), 91G. Two sketch maps, untitled covering Indreabháin.

Carbon copy of a handwritten letter from Robinson to Mr H W Meis asking him to mark in both a fulacht fiadh that he recently discovered, and the forest he has planted on an enclosed map. (Undated).

Enclosed map annotated by men working for Mr Meis (1987/8).