File 1 - Correspondence and enclosures (various)

2 folders (c. 150 pp)

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.

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