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).

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).

Letter from B E Leake, Professor of Geology, The University Glasgow, to Máiréad Robinson regarding a geological map of Connemara (1985);

Correspondence between Tim Robinson and P W Geoff Tanner of the Geology Department at Glasgow University. Enquires about work carried out on an excursion to Maam on the contours of the Twelve Bens regions, and subsequent discussion of the Connemara map. (1985-1990);

Correspondence between Professor Paul Mohr, Geology Department, UCG and Tim Robinson with enclosures. Robinson asking Mohr to "vet the geology" in a piece he has written, and requesting clarification on the Shannawonna fault. A piece by Paul Mohr entitled 'History of Connacht Geology' looking at early amateur geologists, the Bog Commissioners' Engineers, Richard Griffith, Patrick Ganly, Joseph Verschoule - Archdeacon of Achonry. A subsequent piece 'Early Concepts and Discoveries in Geology: A Synopsis for Students' put together by Mohr. A 1991 photograph of Robinson at the fault line, Fó Uí Mháille, Ballinaleama is attached to one letter. (1987-1995);

Letter from Mary McDonagh Robinson enclosing a map showing minerals in the Galway area. (2004);

Letter from Ronán Hennessy, Department of Earth and Ocean Science at NUI Galway with enclosures:

A 3D map of Turlough Hill, Co Clare, showing hut sites;

'A model of subaqueous sedimentation at the margin of the Late Midlandian Irish Ice Sheet, Connemara, Ireland, and its implications for regionally high isostatic sea levels', Geoffrey S P Thomas and Richard C Chiverrell;

'Understanding Irish Landscape Evolution: Pollen assemblages from neogene and pleistocene palaeosurfaces in Western Ireland', Pete Coxon;

Programme and abstracts for the 47th Irish Geological Research Meeting, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, NUI Galway, 2004;

Photocopy of 'The Geology of the Roundstone ultrabasic complex, Connemara'., D L Bremner and B E Leake.

Letter from Stephen Walsh of Connemara Marble requesting assistance on a book about the marble, the history of the Martin's involvement, early anecdotes. A copy of the booklet. (2013).

Page of handwritten notes from Tim Robinson on Connemara marble.

Two press cuttings from Connacht Tribune on Connemara marble (1989 and 1998).

A file of documents on Connemara Marble received from Kevin Joyce in July 2005. Includes copies of news articles from 1922, a copy letter from [ ] Beadle to Mr Berridge (6 April 1922) on marble. A typed piece entitled 'Cathedral Marbles: Connemara Green' outlining a history of it.