Folder 1/2 Roundstone Community Council documents regarding the pier at Roundstone, and the proposed development of 30 holiday cottages, a treatment plant and mini golf course at Ervallagh.

Includes press cuttings and third party correspondence. Correspondents include An Bord Pleanála, M R Quaid (Architect and Civil Engineer), Roundstone Community Council, Minister of the Marine John P Wilson, Roger Garland TD, Pól Ó Foighil, an tUas S Ó Cuaig.

Small file of correspondence with politicians and Galway County Council relating to repairs and the proposed development work at Roundstone Pier.

Newsletters of the Irish Peatland Conservation Council and Earthwatch.

Folder 2/2 Reports relating to Roundstone town initiatives. Includes:
'Roundstone, a plan for the development of existing resources (1989);

A plan for Old Quay Court;

'The Roundstone Project' - an architectural competition sponsored by IDA Ireland;

Roundstone Water Supply Report 1997;

Organisation for Tidy Towns, and the adjudication report from 2005;

Roundstone Development Plan 1999-2002;

Roundstone Development Plan for 2003-2006;

Note on an objection of the Roundstone Development Council to a large scale holiday home development (2005);

Draft and final version for a translation of a brochure for Letterdyfe House into Dutch, undated;

Photocopy of a letter from 1993 concerning the lands at Ervallagh, owned by Richard Humphreys serving notice on an un-named recipient regarding vacating land, (related? newspaper clippings and maps ***);

Copy of a low carbohydrate diet.

Five architects' drawings for workshops in an IDA industrial development in Roundstone, 1979.

Letter from R H Bonar of the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland enclosing some articles on the Roundstone church, (1989). Enclosed photocopied articles and handwritten notes of Tim's.

'My Life in Connaught, With Sketches of Mission Work in the West' by Rev Thomas Armstrong, (1906);
A publication on the Crotty Schism at Birr, 1820-1850;
'The Life and Letters of Rev William Pennefather, BA' edited by Rev Robert Braithwaite, (1816);

Four copies of black and white images of Roundstone, early 20th century (in mylar).

Fax copy of a letter from the Roundstone Community Council to the Planning Department of Galway Co Council objecting to a planning application to build apartments and a launderette in one of the earliest buildings in Roundstone (1997).

Handwritten notes on lace making in Roundstone, by Kathleen Barlow (nee Dowd). Postcard from Columba O'Donovan (nee McKay) enclosing copies of some old photographs of Roundstone, the Marconi Station in Clifden, Errisbeg House, and many others (2004-2007). A page of typed notes on the Cosgrove Sisters who were lace teachers and the Roundstone lace school established c. 1910.

Handwritten notes from the ledgers of J Clocharty of Roundstone giving some bullet point history on the de Stacpoole's. Handwritten notes from an interview between Jim Fahy of RTE and the 5th Duchess de Stacpoole. Service from the funeral of Major George the Duc de Stacpoole (2005).

Envelope of photographs marked "Roundstone, Inis Ní, Inis Leacan, Aircín and Aill na Caillí", filled with candid photographs of Tim and Máiréad, their friends, and the area.

File of tourist brochures for Roundstone.

Chart of information assembled by Roundstone National School Children in summer 1985 (teacher Josephine Roche). It names 11 boats, their size, the type of fish they catch.

Tim Robinson's handwritten notes on Ros a Mhíl harbour.

'The Sea Around Us', notes compiled by Peter Vine of Clifden in November 1984. Includes a copy of Marine Field Course in Galway, dated 1937.

File of correspondence with enclosures relating to Ros a Mhíl and Casla. Correspondents include:

Pat Folan, GMIT enclosing extra detail about Tóin an Cnoic and the Martello Tower at Ros an Mhíl (undated);

Liam Mac an Iomaire with enclosures relating to Bruce Ismay (of the White Star Line, a passenger on board Titanic), Colm Ó Lochlainn, and a piece on the Costello Lodge in Derrynea from the Landed Estates Database (20 Feb 2010);

Michael Gibbons enclosing aerial photographs (undated).

Photocopies of a plan drawn up for Rossaveel Ferry Terminal, with map, aerial photograph of a small craft harbour, a business card for Captain John C Donnolly, Harbour Master (note to say received 2005);

Newspaper clippings on Bruce Ismay, Séamus Ó Conghaile, Jack Toohey, Roger Casement's role in the Connemara Relief Fund, and Eddie Delaney's sculptures.

Brochures for local businesses late 1980s.

Envelope of photographs marked "An Ceathrú Rua, Ros a Mhíl, Teach a' Bhlaca", mostly photographs taken around Ros a Mhíl (1982-1987).

Envelope of negatives entitled 'Burren (new roads etc '95), R. Jocelyn'.

Press cuttings and photocopies of reviews of 'Camchuairt Chonamara Theas: A Twisty Journey mapping South Connemara' from The Sunday Tribune, Connacht Tribune, Books Ireland, and Foinse.

Press cuttings from Foinse and The Irish Times reviewing 'Connemara After the Famine' and 'Setting foot on the shores of Connemara and other writings'.

Photocopies, print-outs and press cuttings of reviews of 'Connemara: A Little Gaelic Kingdom'. Taken from The Sunday Business Post Magazine, The Irish Times, Country Life, Tisdag, The Independent, The Guardian, The Irish Catholic, Irish Independent Review, Foinse, Connacht Tribune and The Sunday Times. The file also includes more general pieces on Tim Robinson's work by Manchán Magan writing in the Irish Times, and a piece by Lorna Siggins reporting in the Irish Times.

There are also press cuttings from the Irish Times and the Sunday Independent reporting on the 2011 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards, and an invitation to the ceremony. 'A Little Gaelic Kingdom' won the award for International Education Services Best Irish Published Book of the Year at the ceremony.

A CD recording of a public interview between Tim Robinson and John Murray on 31 Aug 2011.

Photocopies, print outs and press cuttings of reviews of 'Connemara: Listening to the Wind' from Social and Natural History, Irish Literary Supplement, Sunday Business Post, Foinse, The Independent, Galway Advertiser, The Bookseller, The Irish Book Review, The Observer, RTE Guide, Emigrant Online, The Dubliner, The Tablet, Irish Independent, Irish Times, The Guardian, Sunday Tribune, Daily Telegraph, Connemara View, Aer Books (in flight magazine of Aer Arann), Mail on Sunday, Connacht Tribune, and Condé Nast Traveller.

Press cuttings and photocopies of reviews of the 1977 Burren map. From Connacht Tribune, Evening Herald, Clare Champion, Irish Times, Tipperary Star, Inniú, The Guardian, Country Life, the Irish Naturalists Journal, Irish Weekly, The Clareman, and The Sunday Times.