File 2 - Ballinahinch Martin family

1 folder (c. 200pp)

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).

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