File includes material relating to the background, funding, campaign, and project around The King Rory O'Connor Memorial Park and Museum project, Tuam, Co. Galway. Includes published booklet with information on the project; pamphlets and subscription/donation forms; press cuttings of news stories regarding the project; a printed document entitled "Memorandum on the Museum of Milling - King Rory O'Connor Park, Tuam, Co. Galway" (Sept 1972); Minutes of the Tuam Mill Museum Society, Museum Advisory Committee, 6 May 1974, 10 Mar 1975, 17 Oct 1975, , 27 Jun 1974, 6 April 1977; 17 Aug 1978; Memorandum on the King Rory O'Connor Project and the Carnegie Report, July 1974; printed invitation to the official opening of the The Miller's House and Exhibition entitled "Five Generations of Millers" at Tuam Mill Museum, 19 May 1980, officiated by Cardinal Tomas Ó Fiaich.
Also correspondence between Etienne Rynne and others such as Michael Flaherty, Team Captain, Christian Brothers' School, Tuam; Tony Claffey, and others involved with the project.
File includes articles published in local press on the history of Tuam High Cross by Etienne Rynne; subsequent letters to the press by Rynne correcting the published text and letters from local school students to Rynne seeking help with a school project on the Tuam High Cross.
72 aerial photographs taken of areas within proposed corridors for road bypasses around Tuam and Ballaghaderreen, including farms, structures, enclosures, and confirmed & potential archaeological sites that may be disturbed by the various proposed routes (images developed 9 February 2001).
36 images on negative and contact sheets.
Tuairín national school. Pictures of the children on stage singing, and in the audience.
15 negative images.
Tuairin House.
Set of index cards describing the townland of Tuaim Beola [Toombeola], drawing background information from Griffith's Valuation, and the Report of Commissioners of Public Instruction in 1835, which reported that a hedge school kept by Patrick Reddington was operated from under Tuaim Beola bridge. Features described include The Scholar's Road, Tuaim Beola National School, the Presbyterian School, Ballynahich River, The Green Turn, the Methodist Mission Church, Dothulla, Cnocán Rua, The Fishery, and the Abbey. Peter Ward credited with providing some of the information.
Flyer for 'Truth Rally introducing Ivan Cooper MP from Mid-Derry, Northern Ireland' sponsored by the American Friends of Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association on Friday 13 Mar 1970, at 8.30pm, in the Irish Center Ballroom, Carpenter Lane and Emlen St., Philadelphia.
Reports from Sub-committee meetings; draft update of the Muintir na Tíre constitution and guidelines for setting up councils.
Set of index cards describing some of the local features of the townland of Truska, [Troscaigh]. Included are descriptions of Fó Chait, Duirling an Chúir, the Shell Middens, and a Viking Age Farmstead and burials that overlook False Bay. Marky and Mary Riley of Mannin Beg, and Martin O'Malley of Roundstone remembering news that his father told him, are credited with providing some of the local information.
Set of index cards describing some of the local features of the townland of Truska, [Troscaigh]. Included are descriptions of Fó Chait, Duirling an Chúir, the Shell Middens, and a Viking Age Farmstead and burials that overlook False Bay. Marky and Mary Riley of Mannin Beg, and Martin O'Malley of Roundstone remembering news that his father told him, are credited with providing some of the local information.
Robinson,Tim