A typed transcription of Thomas Colville Scott's diary, with Robinson's edits and corrections to spellings and syntax handwritten in.

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Review in 2030.

File of photocopies of the following articles:

'Brief description of the Coast in the vicinity of Kilkee, Co. of Clare' by George V De Noyer (published 1846);

'Evidence for the Burren's forest cover' by Keith Crabtree (from Archaeological Aspects of Woodland Ecology, published 1982);

'Farming and Woodland Dynamics in Ireland during the Neolithic' by Michael O'Connell and Karen Molloy (published 2001);

'The Devensian/Weichselian late-glacial in northwest Europe (Ireland, Britain, north Belgium, The Netherlands, northwest German)' by Walker, Bohncke, Coope, O'Connell, Usinger and Verbruggen (published 1994);

'Late glacial vegetation and environment in Ireland: First results from four western sites' by Andrieu, Huang, O'Connell and Paus (published 1993);

'Evaluation of land surfaces cleared from forests in the Roman Iron Age and the time of migrating Germanic tribes based on regional pollen diagrams' by Michael O'Connell (published 1994);

'The nature of the vegetational changes at about 5,000 B.P. with particular reference to the elm decline: fresh evidence from Connemara, western Ireland' by Karen Molloy and Michael O'Connell (published 1987);

Fragment of a pollen chart from Connemara National Park (1984-5);

'Pre-Glacial evolution of limestone terrains in Ireland' by G F Mitchell (published 1985);

'Palaeoecological investigations towards the reconstruction of woodland and land-use history at Lough Sheeauns, Connemara, western Ireland' by Karen Molloy and Michael O'Connell (published 1990);

'Early land use and vegetation history at Derryinver Hill, Renvyle Peninsula, Co Galway, Ireland' by Karen Molloy and Michael O'Connell (published 1993);

'Palaeoecological investigations towards the reconstruction of the post-glacial environment at Lough Doo, County Mayo, Ireland' by Michael O'Connell and Frazer J C Mitchell (published 1987);

'The earliest agriculture in Ireland - new evidence from Connemara' by Michael O'Connell (undated);

Illustrations from an article by Michael O'Connell and Karen Molloy showing pollen curves from the late Atlantic to early Medieval periods.

Abstract of a study by Helena Feaghan to investigate the exploitation of natural resources in the Burren during the prehistoric and early historic period.

Abstract of an article by W A Watts on palynology in the Burren.

'History of vegetation and land use from 3200 B.P. to the present in the north-west Burren, a karstic region of western Ireland' by Ljubica Jelicic and Michael O'Connell (published 1992).

'Ancient Sea Margins in the Counties Clare and Galway' by G Henry Kinahan (published 1866);

'Limestone Pavements with special reference to Western Ireland' by Paul W Williams (published 1966);

'The enclosed depression of Carran, county Clare' by M M Sweeting (published 1953), with reprographics slip from UCG Library;

'Topography of Thomond' by James Frost (published 1893);

'The landforms of north-west county Clare, Ireland' by M M Sweeting (published 1955).

Typed fair copy of the manuscript for 'A Little Gaelic Kingdom'. In the title sheet, Robinson has called it 'Connemara 2', indicating its place as the 2nd part of the Connemara trilogy, despite being the last book in the series to be published.

Two photocopies of a letter from the Roundstone Relief Committee office, dated 1847, encloses list of subscribers to the Roundstone Relief Committee for the Parish of Moyrus. Provenance is unclear (based on the stamp, it is likely these are reprographic copies from NLI).

Photocopied letter printed in an unknown publication on an existing threat to Burren goats.

Red hardback notebook for the 1st edition of the Burren map. Contains an indexing system that corresponds to the annotations Robinson has made on Ordnance Survey maps (see P120/3/2/1/1). The indexes include megalithic tombs, pre-historic forts and dolmens that correspond to T J Westropp's work, forts and dolmens not described by Westropp, peel towers, map sketches of towns, sketches of flora, sketches of carvings, and lists of cooking sites.

Box of index cards with 307 numbered cards, each assigned to a townland in the Burren. The cards begin in Ballyvaughan, and continue South ending up in Tulla. These cards are not as detailed as the placename index for the Aran Islands and Connemara (P120/1). Some of the cards contain summary information about a holy well or another feature Robinson wished to remember. The numbers do not correspond to the notebook.

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.

Final proof of manuscript with markers for printers. Includes coversheet from Palimpsest Book Production Ltd.

First and early typed drafts of the following chapters of 'The Last Pool of Darkness':

'Suspect Terranes' which became 'A Suspect Terrane' in the published version, (Sept 2006); 'Faultlines', which became 'Faults' in the published version (Aug 2006); 'W. in Rosroe II', which became 'Thinking on the Ocean's Edge' in the published version (Jul 2006); 'The Sublime', which became 'The Sublime and the Religious' in the published version (Jan 2008); 'Romantic Ireland', which became 'The Smuggler and the Fabulist' in the published version (undated); 'Daylight and Twilight on Old Stones', which became 'Twilight on Old Stones' in the published version (23 Oct 2006), the text indicates there are earlier versions, but these are not in archive; 'Fate' (12 Oct 2007); 'The Disenchanted Island' which became 'Refloating Inishbofin' in the published version (6 Jun 2007), the text indicates there are earlier versions, but these are not in archive; 'High Island' which became 'Plague and Purity' in the published version (undated); 'Ballinaboy' which became 'From Ballinaboy' in the published version, (21 Nov 2007); typed pieces on the Sky Road and Clifden Castle, later integrated into 'Controversial Pitch' in the published version, (22 Jun 2007); typed piece on Marconi which were integrated into 'Photons in the Bog' in the published version, (Nov 2006); 'The Kingdom of Manannán', (Nov 2007).