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Black and white photograph of carved stone st Turoe, Loughrea, Co. Galway. Also includes colour postcard image of the stone and other mounted photocopy prints of the stone and carvings.

File includes a TS report on the excavations at 'The Chair of Tuam", Co. Galway, by Etienne Rynne, 1979 and encloses extracts from OS maps of the area and site area and boundary marked. Includes black and white mounted photographic print of Richard Savage, "Last Sovereign of Tuam", (n.d.); also black and white photographs by [Rynne] of the excavations in progress. Also correspondence with report findings by Rynne to Galway County Council Planning Office.

TS excavations report compiled by Etienne Rynne on "A Fourth High Cross at Tuam"; copies of some published work on high crosses; manuscripts notes and drawings on work at the site by Rynne. Also TS Minutes of Meetings of Proceedings of the National Monuments Advisory Committee, held in Galway, 1981 - 1982, discussing various archaeological projects and sites in the area.

File which focuses on stained glass and in particular the stained glass windows at St. Brendan's Cathedral, Loughrea, Co. Galway and at other locations. Includes colour photo print of stained glass window of 'The Sower" at Tierneevin Church, near Gort, Co. Galway, by artist George Campbell; TS report entitled "Some Notes on the Stained Glass of Loughrea Cathedral, Co. Galway" - by William J. Dowling. Dublin - May 1979; detailed MS notes by Rynne on religious symbolism and expression in church stained glass windows; copies of various brochures and leaflets about the history of St. Brendan's Cathedral; issue of The Irish Heritage Series:56 - St. Brendan's Cathedral, with detailed text and colour images. Also colour photographs of the stained glass windows at Labane Church, Co. Galway, taken by Rynne. File also includes two sets of index cards with MS notes on individual cards by Rynne. Each card carries information regarding specific stained glass windows in galway and Ireland, information on artists such as Harry Clarke and Evie Hone and descriptions of individual stained glass windows.

File includes TS site reports by Etienne Rynne for investigation of cist grave at Johnstown, Co. Galway; cist grave at Garracloon North, near Craughwell, Co. Galway; cist grave at Brougher, Co. Sligo; and cist grave at Tawnaghmore, Co. Mayo. Includes extensive manuscript notes by Rynne, drawings and sketches of the sites, black and white photographic prints of unlabelled [clay pots]; correspondence between Etienne Rynne and Joseph Raftery, Keeper of Irish Antiquities, National Museum of Ireland, discussing the sites and objects (1970).

Archaeological report and site assessment in Corrafaireen and Lissaniska, Co. Galway. Also includes a site map and some manuscript research notes by Etienne Rynne.

File includes manuscript research notes, drawings, etchings, and writings by Etienne Rynne regarding a bronze cauldron at Ballyedmond, Tuam, Co. Galway. also letters to Rynne from Stuart Piggott, University of Edinburgh and also from [John ], The British Museum, discussing the cauldron.

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 TS report by Etienne Rynne entitled "Polished Stone Axehead from Belleville Demesne, Co. Galway", with details and illustrations of the objects; copy of article by Etienne Rynne entitled "Adare, Athenry, and Isle of Man - Coincidence or a Late Neolithic Connection". Also correspondence between Rynne and Andy Halpin discussing research matters going before the RIA.

File includes a photographic copy of the 1651 pictorial map of Galway, with a manuscript drawing copy of same by Etienne Rynne along with a copy article of Notes on the Pictorial Map of Galway."