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Folder of Robinson's 1977 map of the Burren, with different revisions added in.

Map marked 'Revision 1, Working Copy, Ballyvaughan - Kilnaboy, 1997 Review'. Boundaries traced in yellow and blue ink, focusing on the East of the map, and pencil and ink notes throughout.

Map marked 'Revision II, with deleted mons. from M Moore'. Boundaries traced in yellow and blue ink, focusing on the West of the map. Pencil and ink notes on Lisdoonvarna.

Map marked 'Placenames Brendan O'Donoghue' (see P120/3/2/2/3). Annotations in red ink, not Robinson's handwriting, throughout the map.

Map with 'Placenames' written in faded ink on the cover. Five annotations to the Doolin area of the map in Robinson's handwriting.

Map with several caves underlined in red ink. (see P120/3/2/2/2). A handwritten note on base of map: 'cósé'.

Two unmarked 1977 maps.

Map marked '1997 Revision Record', marked with unidentified numbers (these do not correspond to the index described in P120/3/2/1/2). A large area to the North and East of Lisdoonvarna is highlighted, and several annotations on Ballyvaughan are in Robinson's handwriting.

Map marked 'Check Copy, Conor McDermots fulachta, Gordon D'Arcy finds' (see P120/3/2/1/5 and P120/3/2/2/3). Check marks in yellow ink, and some annotations in red ink.

Map marked 'Check Copy', with several tick marks in pencil.

Two copies of Martin Breen's 'The Doolin guide and map'. One copy with a postit note from Martin to Robinson, and the other copy with features circled by Robinson.

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

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).

File of photocopies of additional reading from the following data sources, articles and books (some containing Robinson's handwritten notes):

'The West of Ireland', Henry Coulter, (1862);

'Tour in Connemara and the Martins of Ballinahinch', Maria Edgeworth, (first published in 1950);

'Rosaleen Dhass - A Tale of the Killeries', "Aroon", (1902);

'Tales of the West of Ireland', James Berry, (1966);

'Tyrone House, Co. Galway', Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, (1976);

'Geography and the Irish Electoral System', A J Parker, (1984-5);

Griffiths Valuation for the Unions of Clifden and Mountbellew (1855);

Selected copies from O'Donovan's Ordnance Survey letters for Galway (Vol 3), (1839);

'A Statistical and agricultural survey of the County of Galway drawn up for the consideration and by the direction of the Royal Dublin Society', Hely Dutton, (1824);

'Lewis Topographical Dictionary for Moyrus', (1837);

'Slater's Directory, Ireland for Clifden', (1856);

'The Last Invasion of Ireland - When Connacht Rose', Richard Francis Hayes, (1939) - notes on Fr Miles Prendergast;

'Five letters Relating to Galway Smuggling in 1737'. Louis Cullen, (1962);

'A forgotten campaign and aspects of the heritage of South East Galway', (1986) - note about the arrest of Johnny Gibbons at Woodford;

'Connemara Refuge for Mayo Rebels of '98', Rory Lavelle, (typed piece, possibly unpublished);

'On timeless shores - journeys in Ireland', . C. Vyvyan, (1957);

'Fifty years of Irish Journalism', Andrew Dunlop, (1911) - writes of Carraroe evictions and the Maamtrasna murders;

'The Irish Crisis of 1879-80', Proceedings of the Dublin Mansion House Relief Committee 1880, (1881) - refers to Arranmore Investigation;

'An Account of the Constitution, Administration and Dissolution of the Congested Districts Board for Ireland from 1891-1923', William L Micks, (1925);

'Memories: Wise and Otherwise', Sir Henry Robinson, (1924);

The last folder contains Tim's handwritten notes from 'Whites Tour of Connemara', 'Cromwell from Old Galway', 'O'Flaherty Iar-Chonnacht', 'Hell or Connacht! The Cromwellian Colonisation of Ireland 1952-1660'. There are some tourist brochures from 1990s also in this folder, and have been left here as per original order.

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). These largely cover Protestant Missions but include other information too:

Substantial photocopies from 'History of the Archdiocese of Tuam' by Monsignor D'Alton, (1928), and 4 pages of Robinson's handwritten notes;

'The Bible in Ireland' by Asenath Nicholson (c. 1845);

'Fifty Years in The Irish Mission' by the Rev. Hamilton Magee (undated);

Photocopies from 'Records of the Connemara Orphan's Nursery', with some post-it notes indicating items of Robinson's interest including 'Tarbot Resistance', Glenowen for girls, kidnapping, D'Arcy rectory;

'A Short Visit to the Connemara Missions, A Letter by the Rev W C Plunkett BA', (1863);

'The Saxon in Ireland, or the Rambles of an Englishman' by J H Ashworth, (1851);

Cover note from Michael Gibbons enclosing selected photocopies from 'The Letters of Lord Chief Baron Edward Willes to the Earl of Warwick, 1757-1762', in which he writes on the Joyce family (undated);

'A Tour in Connacht', Caesar Otway (1839);

'The Irish Sketch Book and Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo' by W M Thackeray, (1875);

'Irish Life in the Seventeenth Century' by Edward MacLysacht, (1969);

'Letters from Ireland' by Harriet Martineau, (1852);

'Through Connemara in a Governess Cart', (1893);

'Sketches of the Irish Highlands', by Rev A McManus (1863);

Letters from Patrick Gageby enclosing the following 3 items:

Obituary for James Keyworth, (1864);

Connemara Past and Present' by the Rev Joseph Denham Smith (1853);

Envelope of 10 photographs of Irish Church Mission banners (referenced in P Gageby's cover letter);

'Lift up a standard, the centenary story of the society for Irish Church Missions' by A E Hughes;

'The Protestant Crusade in Ireland, 1800-70', Desmond Bowen;

A photograph of the Protestant Church in Moyrus in 1910, sent to Tim from Frank Keaney;

Pages of Robinson's handwritten notes on the Protestant crusade in Ireland;

Correspondence between Tim Robinson, the Very Revd W J Grant, J F Buttimore, Raymond Rafausse, Rev Michael Molloy about a church near Ballinahinch Castle which transferred from Church of Ireland to Roman Catholic in 1959. Enclosures include extracts from the Parish history of Ballyconnely and Claddaghduff. A photocopy from the Calendar of Papal Registers 1471-1484, on Moyrus, and a copy of a church newsletter from Kilmilkin in Leenane, which gives a history of the church from Early Christian times 500 - the Penal Laws 1829 (1987-1989);

Newspaper cutting on Ethel Mannin;

Letter from Roddy (R.P.) McCaffrey of Robinson, Keefe, Devane enclosing a description of Cashel Church (1997);

'Burke's Guide to Country Houses, Vol 1 Ireland'. Short note from Patrick Farrell to Tim enclosing a photograph captioned 'Teachín na bPrayers', and a small painted sketch of the house as he remembers it, (1997).

Copy of 'Confessions of a Song Junkie' by Lillis Ó Laoire, a piece about Tory Island, accompanied by handwritten card in Irish language from Lillis. Folder also includes copies of 'An Claisceadal', 'Gan Unsa ar Bith Céille' An Fhearúlacht agus an bharántúlacht in dhá amhrán le Seosamh Ó hÉanaí', by Lillis Ó Laoire agus Seán Williams, Folder 1/4;

Photocopy from 'Ceól na n-Oileán, amhráin a chruinnigh an t-Athair Tomás Ó Ceallaigh in Oileáin Chonmara' (1931);

Photocopy 'Cláirseach na nGaedheal, an dara cuid' le Brendán Mac Ruaidhrí agus Seosamh Laoide (1902);

A songbook published by Connradh na Gaeilge Folder 2/4;

Photocopied 'Cnuasacht de Cheoltaí Uladh', put together by Seán Ó Baoighill, Réamonn Ó Frighil and Aodh Ó Duibheannaigh, (1944);

Photocopy of 'Irish Popular Songs with English Metrical Translations and Introductory Remarks and Notes' by Edward Walsh (1883);

Undated sheet with lyrics to 'Im Bím Babaró', 'Mo Ghréasaí Bróg', and 'Thíos i Lár an ghleanna' Folder 3/4;

Photocopy of 'Amhráin Chlainne Gaedheal' le Mícheál agus Tomás Ó Máille, (1905);

Photocopy of 'The Salley Ring' by Patrick Kelly, (1941) Folder 4/4.

File of bibliographies on Connemara, covering Geological Survey of Ireland, Ecological Evidence for Irish Neolithic structures, Connemara in literature, lists of work held at UCG library, local history books available at Galway County Libraries, a bibliographical index of Galway authors, and various handwritten lists of books and articles to look up. (Folder 1/5).

File of photocopies of the following articles and books:

'Rural Society in Connacht, 1600-1640' by Jean M Graham, (1970);

'Clachán Settlement in Iar-Chonnacht' by Breandan S Mac Aodha, (1965);

'Settlement Patterns in the West of Ireland in the Pre-Famine Period' by Kevin Whelan, (undated);

'The Future of the Irish Rural Landscape' by Kevin Whelan with cover letter (1993);

Introduction to 'Irish Highlands' with correspondence between Tim Robinson and Kevin Whelan (1993);

'The sea-weeds of yar-Connaught, and their uses' by G H Kinahan (1869), with cover letter from Maura Scannell (1986); (Folder 2/5).

'William McCalla - a second 'panegyric' for an Irish Phycologist' by E Charles Nelson (1981);

'William McCalla (c. 1814-1849), Phycologist; his published papers of 1846'. (1980);

'Gleanings from the History of the Franciscan Monastery, Roundstone' (For Rev G Charles, P P Roundstone);

Photocopied photographs from Lissnabrucka photograph albums (Pat Reid), Feature the Monastery, Lord Dudley;

Letter from Simon Ashe to Tim Robinson relating to Inishlacken, enclosing handwritten transcribed extracts from Alex and John's Log Books of quotes about Inishlackan from 1972 to 1996, the Broughton family, and a map (1997);

'Photocopy of Darby Gannon of Inishnee, A Memoir', written from Merlin Park hospital in 1987, written for his German neighbours in Inis Ní, and given to Tim Robinson by Arndt Wigger in 1996. Talks about schooling, fishing, Washington;

A note on Marcus Clogherty of Deer Island, and a press cutting on the Sceirde proposal for wind generation, from Connacht Tribune 2001;

'The End of the World' by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson of QCG, 1945;

'The Fishery at Casla Conamara, its history and records 1684-1956';

'Life of Michael Davitt and History of the Land League'; (Folder 3/5).

Handwritten notes 'An Cheathrú Rua Cáit Ní Dhomhnaill - '84'

Print out email from Bob Quinn (circular to Aosdána members) with enclosed essay by Desmond Fennell 'On Thinking in Ireland' (2009);

Letter from Ríonach Uí Ógáin enclosing an Irish language piece she has written 'Cruach na Cara' (1984);

'Cruach MacDara off the coast of Connemara with a notice of its church, crosses, and antiquities', by Francis Joseph Bigger (1896);

Photocopied article from the Connacht Tribune 'Mac Dara Island's Unique Traditions' (1976);

Photocopied letter to Canon [Previte], enclosing an original ballad on St MacDara's Bay. (2008) (Folder 4/5).

Typed and handwritten bibliography on varied subjects (Fenians, Fossils, Gaeltacht Community, Limestone morphology, flora, and others);

'Subverting the Western Gaze: Mapping Alternative Worlds' by Barbara Bender (1995);

'Early Irish Literature' by Miles Dillon (1948);

'Medieval Religious Houses Ireland' by A Gwynn and R N Hadcock (undated);

'The Long Walk of a Queen - the representation of Ireland as a woman in Irish Literary Tradition' (undated);

'Bibliography Logainmneacha' (undated);

'Genius Fabulae: The Irish Sense of Place' with cover note from Pat Sheeran (1987);

'Town and Baile in Irish placenames' by T Jones Hughes (undated);

'Ancient Irish Law: The law of status or franchise' Eoin MacNeill (1923);

Lyrics - 'In Praise of the [ ] of Mullingar';

'A portrait of Maree', (1986);

'Clogher Record' (1983);

'The modern traveller to the early Irish Church' (undated);

'The hisperica famina: the a-text' by Michael W Herren (1974);

'Limestone morphology in Ireland' P W Williams (1970);

'Irish Raths and Cashels' Bruce Proudfoot (1970);

'The Flora of Turloughs' R L Praeger (1932);

'The Gaeltacht Community in Ireland' (undated);

'Archaeological Aspects of Woodland Ecology' ny Martin Bell and Susan Limbrey (1982);

Tim Robinson's handwritten notes from several of these articles at the end of the folder (Folder 5/5).

Printed out email correspondence between Professor Paul Ryan and Tim Robinson on the Skird / Skerd Rock fault, and the positioning of the Iapetus suture (2009).

Copies of the following articles with some notes:

'The Galway Granite' by M D Max, C B Long and M A Geoghegan (1978);

'Granite magmas: their sources, initiation and consequences of emplacement', B E Leake (1990);

'The crystallization history and mechanism of emplacement of the western part of the Galway Granite, Connemara, Western Ireland', B E Leake (1974);

'The Spatial Distribution of K, U, Th and surface hear production in the Galway Granite, Connemara, Western Ireland', M Feely and J S Madden (1986);

Abstracts from a Connemara Discussion Meeting held in the Department of Geology at UCG in September 1990;

'Tectonic position of the Dalradian rocks of Connemara and its bearing on the evolution of the Midland Valley of Scotland', B E Leake, P W Geoff Tanner, R M Macintyre, and E Elias;

'The petrochemistry of the basic volcanic rocks on the South Connemara Group (Ordovician), Western Ireland', P D Ryan, M D Max, and T Kelly;

'Preliminary report on the geology of the north-western approaches to Galway Bay and part of its landward area', from the Geological Survey of Ireland Report Series, undated, with map enclosure and post it notes.

Reference material, most forwarded on from Professor Paul Mohr, Geology Department at UCG and containing some cover notes from him:

List of regional events taking place in Connacht for Irish Geology Week, September 1988;

A list of abstracts from a Connemara discussion meeting at the Department of Geology in the University of Glasgow, November 1988;

'A deep seismic reflection transect across the Irish Caledonides', S L Klemperer, P D Ryan and D B Snyder (1991);

'Drumlins and the Veichsel Glaciation of Connemara', Antony R Orme (1967);

'Major southward thrusting of the Dalradian rocks of Connemara, western Ireland', Bernard Leake, P W Geoff Tanner, and D Singh (1983);

'Report on a discussion meeting on the geology of Connemara, Western Ireland', P Mohr and M Feely;

'The metagabbros, orthogneisses and paragneisses of the Connemara complex, western Ireland' BE Leake (1989);

'Tectomnically reset RB-Sr system duringLate Ordovician terrane assembly in lapetus, western Ireland', P S Kennan, F C Murphy (1987);

'Strike-slip terranes and a model for the evolution of the British and Irish Caledonides', Donald H W Hutton (1987);

'Stratigraphy, structure and metamorphism of Dalradian rocks of the Maumturk Moutains, Connemara, Ireland', by Michael Edward Badley (1976);

'A summary geological history of Connemara' from Mrs O'Tool, Seals Rock Hotel;

'Tertiary Delerite intrusions of west-central Ireland' by Paul Mohr (1982);

'An outline of the geomorphology of Murrisk and North-West Galway', J F Dewey and W S McKerrow;

'Geosyncline-Margin Sedimentary Rocks in Silurian of West Connacht, Ireland', David J W Piper;

'The Wenlock sediments of north-west Galway, Ireland' (1970);

'Llanvrin stratigraphy of the Galway-Mayo border area, western Ireland', J B Archer;

'Does the Variscan front in Ireland follow a destral shear zone?', M D Max and J P Lefort (1984);

Map entitled 'Geology of Errismore',

The Geological Survey of Ireland, 'Mineral Exploration and Development in Ireland', 1981.

'Irish Hill Days' by Alan F. Airey;

'Frost and Fire, Natural Engines, Tool-Marks and chips';

'The Intellectual Observer Review of Natural History, Microscopic Research and Recreative Science';

'Hand-book to Galway, Connemara, and the Irish Highlands, profusely illustrated by Jas Mahony';

'A Tour in Connemara with Remarks in its great physical capabilities' by George Preston White;

'The Dublin Penny Journal', with a piece on Clifden Castle, March 192[?];

'Gleanings in the West of Ireland' by the Hon and Rev S Godolphone Osborne.

Copy of a letter from Rosaleen Birmingham of the Royal Society of Antiquaries to Mrs Stephen O'Flaherty, enclosing articles referencing the monastery at Toombeola in the 15th and 17th centuries (provenance unclear. Letter from 1971).

Letter from Susan Dixon to Tim with reminiscences of a holiday to Aill na Caillí (1997).

Architectural descriptions of Our Lady of the Wayside Church at Ballinahinch, and St Patrick's Church, Recess from Roddy McCaffrey (2002).

Handwritten account from Pamela Reid of her family home at Lisnabrucka previously owned by the Berridge family. She also includes a note on St Brigid's Church at Ballinafad, previously St Joseph's until c. 1970. (2003)

Two letters from Donal Taheny on the convent in Toombeola, with enclosed information from Fr Hugh Fenning, Dominican archivist (2006-7).

A copy of an orienteering map in Ballinahinch and various press cuttings.

Envelope of photographs marked "Ballinahinch, Cashel, Oileán Gorm" with photographs of sights and people taken 1982-4. Includes John Moriarty.