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Photocopy from 'An t-Iomaire Ruadh' le Tomás Ó Máille, 1939. Tim Robinson's handwritten notes on the piece, focusing on Placenames.

In some instances these folders include material that relates to other topics. They have been left in their original order. The "related material" field will represent many of these links to other parts of the archive.

Typed chronology of the History of Ballinahinch with a hand-drawn map (13th century - 1957). (30 June 1986).

Photocopy of the index map to the Martin Estate Sale and a sketch map of the Ballinahinch catchment. Copies from the Connacht Tribune and The Farmers Journal relating to the Martin Estate Auction in August 1849.

Tim Robinson's handwritten and typed carbon copy 'Chapter Four Landlord and Peasant on the Road to Famine', with notes on the effects of the Cromwellian settlement in Connemara, the Martins and D'Arcys, religious affiliations, and the sale of the Martin Estate.

Typed notes on Ballynahinch for a lecture at Connemara National Park to be given in August 1987.

Correspondence (Richard Pine to Robert Jocelyn proposing a Humanity Dick Winter School in Roundstone 1995; letter from Eric Twadell to Tim Robinson seeking information on an alleged snuff box given to Napoleon while exiled on St Helena, rumoured to have come to Ross House; letter from Jennifer Harrison to Tim enclosing information on Honora Geary of Ballinahinch).

Envelope of photographs of Ballinahinch and Recess churches (modern).

Press cuttings and brochures relating to Ballinahinch, 1990s.

Photocopies of the following articles:

'This is Ireland: Connacht and the City of Galway' by Richard Hayward, (1952);
'Through Connemara in a governess cart' (author and date unknown);
'The Mayor of Wind-Gap and Canvassing' by Michael Banim and Harriet Martin (1979);
'Ballinahinch Castle' by Maria Edgeworth, (1834);
Notice of the sale of the Martin Estates in 1852, with cover note from Dominic Berridge;
'Personal Sketches of his own times' by Sir Jonah Barrington, (1827-1832);
'The Collective Wisdom' by a member of the other benches, (1824);
'Cry Beautiful Once More' by Tom Fort, (1986);
'Vicissitudes of Families' by Sir Bernard Burke, (1883);
Small booklet 'History of Ballynahinch Castle' by Des Lally;
'Genealogy of the Family Martin of Ballinhinch Castle' by Archer E S Martin (1890).

Two sketch maps of Letterdyfe House at Roundstone with a legend written in Dutch.

Short stories, verses and copies of paintings by Dr Philip Robinson who uses the nom de plume Rim.

Photographs - one (torn down the middle) photograph has a note on the back "Graham Robinson looking out of window on Jubilee Day and pointing at Mrs Bartlett's picture of the Roundstone beaches". Colour photocopies of late 18th century portraits of the Dodwell family. Photocopy of a group photograph at a Robinson family wedding with Edward Carson, a relation of the Robinsons present. Photocopy photograph of [Gedge] Robinson and Rebecca Martin with 8 of their children.

Letter to Tim Robinson from Patrick Gageby (27 Jan 1993) enclosing the text of an address to Henry A Robinson, found in Cartron House.

Two letters with enclosed photographs to Tim from Sonia Kelly (29 Jan-14 Feb 2007) about her father who had a tea plantation in Ceylon.

A typed piece by Willy Groenman-van Waateringe "The Housebook of Mrs A M Robinson" - transcribed from a housebook in the drawer of a kitchen table at Letterdyfe House in 1966.

A letter from Dominic Berridge to Tim Robinson enclosing photocopied documents relating to Fixed Rent. George Robinson is the Agent of Richard Berridge the landlord.

Small volume entitled 'Poems from the Irish'.

Robinson family trees - handwritten pedigrees with information from [Guy/Gary] Robinson in August 1995.

Photocopied piece tracing the Dodwell family from the late 16th century.

Photograph album relating to the Robinsons of Letterdyfe, with a rhyme at the beginning from Graham Robinson. Includes class photographs from the local school.

A small pocket appointment diary for 1880, with entries written in the late 1920s. Martin Conroy, and Stephen Martin Conroy written at the front. Local events such as the Clifden races, local funerals, weather conditions are recorded.

Damaged photograph of two men wearing suits, and woman seated. Note on back reads 'The [Girl?] from an Atlantic [G...?].

Collection of maritime postcards, most blank, but some posted to Michael Conroy.

File of receipts for Poor Rates between the 1920s and 1960s to Bridget and later Michael Conroy.

Handwritten correspondence between John and Patrick Conroy, Sister Nora [O'Donnell?], Mrs Michael [Bridget?] Conroy (1940s-1974).

Mylar envelope of photographs, mostly unidentified, but likely to be members of the Conroy family. The photographs date from c. late 19th century to 1978.

File of correspondence and personal effects relating to Nora O'Donnell, Michael Conroy and others. (1911 - 1997).

Mylar envelope of photographs, early 20th century. None are identified, but are likely to be members of the Conroy family. Possible photo of Nora O'Donnell.

Badly damaged books and copies relating to the Conroy family of Beaghbauneen. 'English Poetry Books for Intermediate Certificate, Poetry of the Ballad Type', 'Mo Leabhair Féin', a mathematics copy book dated 1936, 'St Enda Literary Reader', 1929.

Correspondence with detailed commentary and enclosures from Sheila Mulloy of Westport on Captain George O'Malley / Ó Máille.

Enclosures include a transcription from Capt. George O'Malley's autobiography, a printout index of vessels between 1806 and 1914, corrections of Tim's chapter on O'Malley in 'The Last Pool of Darkness'.

Photocopies and handwritten notes relating to the following readings:

'A Holiday in Connemara', Stephen Gwynn, (1909);
Selected extracts on selected routes and fisheries in Connemara taken from 'Connemara Calling: Guide to the West of Ireland', and a page of handwritten notes by Robinson on the piece, where he says "written soon after 1945";
Photocopy of a printed lecture given in 1914 entitled 'The O'Flaherty Country' by E W Lynam.

Correspondence and enclosures between Professor James P Murray, Professor of Radiology at UCG and Tim Robinson on the subject of Lady Dudley's Nursing Scheme.

Professor Murray writes seeking sources as part of his research in compiling a history of medicine in Galway. Enclosures include the 1971 Annual Report of the scheme, press cuttings. Letters include information on Dr Stoney - doctor on Inis Mór in 1880s, nurses in the Recess and Roundstone districts in 1904, and anecdotes.

Photocopy of Fr M D Conroy's memoirs, (January 1943). Fr Conroy was ordained in 1884, and appointed to Leitir Mealláin / Lettermullan and Carraroe, and ordered to build a church in Leitir Mealláin. His memories outline Parish Priests and local churches and schools in the areas from the time of his ordination. It covers Ada Yeats who taught lace making in Croe, evictions and rioting in Croe, Casheen Bay as a safe anchorage for the Duke of Edinburgh when distributing food and clothing to the poor, the arrival of German v-boats there during the first World War. The role of the Comerford family of Kinvara. It covers in detail the division of Killannin into Killannin, Spiddal, and Killeen, and Fr Coyne's objection when Killanin was given to Galway in 1890. Fr Conroy later encountered problems with Fr Coyne's faction, with several confrontations involving a police presence and subsequent trial. Two pages of Robinson's handwritten notes accompany the memoir.

A handwritten note in Tim's writing to say they are a copy of the typescript in possession of Fr M Lang, the Parish Priest at An Cheathrú Rua.

Photocopies from the Monuments Dataset of the Archaeological Survey of Co Galway. All sites are in Connemara. The metadata captured includes the site classification, designation, condition, any threats, and a description of the site. (1 folder).

File of photocopies of additional reading from the following data sources, articles and books (some containing Robinson's handwritten notes, some with cover notes from people who sent them).

'Hunter Gatherer Strategies in the Mesolithic: The Evidence from Western Connacht' by Michael Gibbons, Jim Higgins, Myles Gibbons (2005);

'The Irish Townland System of Landscape Organisation' by Thomas McErlean (1983);

Findings on Doonloghan by Finbar McCormick (1986);

'Bronze Age to Medieval Coastal Shell Middens near Ballyconneely, Co Galway', by Finbar McCormick, Michael Gibbons, Francis Gerald McCormac and Janine Moore (1996);

'Some Observations on the sites and monuments record of County Mayo' by Michael Gibbons, Olive Alcock, Tom Condit, Mary Tunney (1991);

'An unrecorded wedge-tomb at Scrahillia, Cashel, Connemara" by Gabriel Cooney (1984) with cover note;

Draft of 'Connemara's Emerging Prehistory' by Michael Gibbons and Jim Higgins;

'Aspects of Connemara's Prehistoric Landscape - the archaeological and paleobotanical evidence' by Michael Gibbons and Jim Higgins;

Print out of the distribution of sites in Connemara and the Aran Islands, September 1987;

'A Viking Burial in County Galway' by Joseph Raftery (1960);

'Notes on some of the Antiquities of the Barony of Ballinahing, Co. Galway' by Lord Killanin, undated;

'Notes on some of the antiquities of the Barony of Moycullen, Co Galway; by Lord Killanin (undated);

'Economy and settlement in Rural Ireland' Bruce Proudfoot (undated);

'Antiquities of Co Galway - an introduction' for Galway Official Guide to City and County;

'Ambergris: a lost link between Connemara and Andalusia' Michael Gibbons and Myles Gibbons (2009);

'Understanding Irish Landscape Evolution Pollen Assemblages from Neogene and Pleistocene palaeosurfaces in Western Ireland' Pete Coxon (2001);

'Modernes Wallfahrtwesen in Westirland' by Elisabeth Walther (1980), in German;

'Stone Basins (some examples from the West of Scotland on guides to typology' by A D Lacaille (1944), with a cover letter to Tim from Noel Dunne (1988).