Handwritten notes and early typed drafts of the following chapters.

Early drafts of Part 2, Residence, and the following chapters from Part 3, West.

'The Boundary' (becomes 'On the Boundary' in a later draft)' 'Village of Women' (later 'The Village of Contented Women'; 'Storm Driven Male'; 'The Shining Ways'; 'Moongrazing'; three drafts of 'The Clock' (the first draft carries the working title 'The Spiral').

A fax to Tim Robinson from Roddy McCaffrey (14 Sep 1994) enclosing comments on a description of Kilmurvey House.

Notes and a drafted piece of writing on storms and storm worship, and drafted pieces of writing that were integrated into the chapter 'Going to Cill Mhuirbhigh'. These cover Kilmurvey House, na muirbhigh mora, and cnocán na mban. Three typed drafts of 'Going to Cill Mhuirbhigh', the second draft with handwritten edits.

Notes and typed draft piece on Teampall MacDuach, later integrated into the chapter 'Ancient Histories', and two typed drafts of that chapter, one labelled "unfinished version".

Five typed drafts of 'The Ferocious O'Flahertys', with handwritten edits throughout, dated Autumn 1994 and February 1995.

Five typed drafts of 'The Big House', one with corrections written in by Liam Mac an Iomaire.

A handwritten and typed draft of 'Dún Aonghusa Revisited', with a note from Claire [ ] from the Discovery Programme advising she will send further information on Dún Aonghusa.

Typed notes on bullan mhaoilabhair / mhaolodhair, which were later integrated into the chapter 'Clochán', and a typed early draft of that chapter, with the working title 'Clochán na Carraige'.

Handwritten and typed notes, later integrated into the chapter 'Seven Churches and a Factory', and two annotated typed drafts of same.

Draft notes on Clochán an Airgid and Bullan na Caillí, later integrated into the chapter 'Looking Out of Aran'.

Handwritten notes and two typed drafts of the postscript 'The Lesser Aran'.

Typed fair copy of 'Stones of Aran: Labyrinth'.

Handwritten notes planning the index.

Printed out tables of contents, index, and acknowledgement pages, with handwritten edits.

Faxes from Anthony Farrell enclosing blurb and compasses for the book's artwork. (Jun 1995).

A hand-drawn book cover by Tim Robinson, and a note from Anthony Farrell enclosing a mockup book jacket.

Typed and printed draft of 'Oileáin Árainn, a companion to the map of the Aran Islands', with Version 2 written on the cover. Some handwritten annotations indicate margin sizes.

File of material objecting to proposals to build three wind turbines on Inis Meáin.

Five iterations of a reflective piece entitled 'Looking for the Burren'. The file includes two handwritten drafts, one with Robinson's distinctive margin doodles. A third draft is typed with handwritten edits. Two typed final versions, one with handwritten instructions on margins and page layout.

Two typed copies of a talk entitled 'The ABC of Mapping', given by Robinson at the Researching the Burren conference held in Ballyvaughan in February 1999. In the talk, Robinson reflects on when he first mapped the Burren in 1976, describing his methodology, and reading extracts from his diary at the time. He outlines contrasts between 'the two dates upon which the Burren year hinges' and farming practice in Connemara. Of the placenames he says 'placename studies in Ireland are a rescue-archaeology of a shallowly buried sacred landscape'.

Two newspaper clippings of articles written by Eileen Battersby for the Irish Times reporting on the conference and quoting Tim Robinson. The controversy over the proposed interpretive centre at Mullach Mór is referenced in this file. (See P120/3/2/5/2 for more about the campaign to oppose the centre).

Six drafts of:

'Towards a Map of South Connemara

1. The Tangled Tightrope
2. Walking out to the Islands'

All drafts have the same date of 16 Jan 1981, but the evolution of the writing can be traced from the first, handwritten draft, through each of the subsequent typed versions.

Tim Robinson's handwritten notes and queries from reading the original manuscript. A typescript document 'Notes to Connemara 1853' which gives context to details mentioned in the diary, such as The Railway Hotel, the Ballinahinch Fishery and more. These are early drafts of the chapter 'Notes', later published in the book.