File 5 - Inis Oírr: Local and placename research

Handwritten letter to Tim from Diarmuid O'Brien enclosing two photocopied aerial photographs of Inis Oírr, and asking for clarification relating to them. (23 Oct 1977).

Handwritten letter to Tim from Bríd Ó hEithir of Inis Oírr who has asked the local school children about some of the names of the sub-divisions on Inis Oírr. She encloses her information. (8 Feb 1980).

Letter from R Miller, Registrar of the Commissioners of Irish Lights clarifying the Service's spelling of the placename as Inisheer. (3 Mar 1980).

Handwritten letter to Tim from Mairéad Póil, enclosing a photocopied list of information on Inis Oírr placenames derived from local school children. The list is in Irish and is titled 'Logainmneacha Inis Oírr, Garranta, Buailteacha agus Craga'. (9 Dec 1986). A printed copy of the 1980 map of Aran, incorporating Póil's information on Inis Oírr coastal names.

Handwritten letter to Tim from Dónall [ ] of OS Office. The subject of the letter is the modern spelling of Inis Oírr. (22 Mar 1991).

Series of correspondence between Tim and Éamon Ó Tuathail containing a lively and detailed exchange of notes on placenames, Eoghanacht and Inis Oírr are discussed in notable detail, also the correct names of the currachmen who drowned off Mainistir c. 1907. Copies of some of the letters Tim wrote in response. (24 Feb 1992 - 19 Mar 1993).

Photocopied article from Éigse 1993, 'An t-Ainm Áite Inis Oírr'.

An offprint of Tomás Ó Broin's 'Inis Thiar: Naming and Misnaming', which was published in 1999 in the JGAHS. Accompanied by a letter from Professor Ó Broin, and a copy of Tim's reponse, in which they discuss the name Inis Oírr. (1999)

Typed list entitled 'Copy of Bualite Baile' that gives an ID, fields, their townland, and who owns them. Pagination begins at p 21. (8 Nov 2006).

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