Three typed drafts of Tim Robinson's introduction to 'Connemara after the Famine, Journal of a Survey of the Martin Estate 1853'. There are handwritten edits in each draft, incorporated into the subsequent draft.
Manuscript
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Six drafts of:
'Towards a Map of South Connemara
- The Tangled Tightrope
- 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.
Draft of printed schedule issued by the Board of Public Works, relating to the drainage in the district of Turloughmore, County Galway. Accepted by the House of Commons in February 1855. (Earlier partial draft of LE10/225).
Printed copy of an Act amending the Act for the promotion of the Drainage of Lands and Improvements in Ireland.
Printed schedule issued by the Board of Public Works, relating to drainage in the district of Turloughmore, County Galway. Schedule A gives a list of proprietors, the lands, amount awarded for drainage and rate of repayment by the proprietor. Thomas O'Conor Donelan is down for the lands of Pollnamal (Belclare), Pollnamall (Killowen) and Woodquay.
Index card relating to the townland of Drimmanakill, [Droim na Cille].
Set of index cards describing some of the local features of the townland of Drimmeen, [An Droimín]. Included are descriptions of Cloch an Mhairnéalach, the Boat Harbour (and the Byrne family of Lombard Street in Dublin, who acquired the land through the Landed Estates Court. A local man believes the harbour was built by John Byrne as famine relief work), a note on the House of John Byrne located at the Boat Harbour, with an illustration of the Byrne family crest, and some biographical information about John Byrne. Also included are descriptions of Roisín (an area of deserted village), Iorras Fhlannain (the site of a drowning in 1860), a kelp store, Dúilic, Ard Mór, An Chois, Oileán Rois, and The Spectacles. Festy Conneely or Turbot, and M. King are credited as being local sources of information.
Index card for the townland of Drimnahoon, [Droim na hUamhan].
Set of index cards describing some of the local features of the townland of Drinagh, [Draighneach]. Included are descriptions of the Protestant Church (some of the headstones are listed here, and a note that the graves of Walls and Heathers are located here), Lorgan, Crompán (on the 1843 estate map as John Lambert's), a note on Aster Development Ltd (Boat Builders), and Imleach (a drumlin). Local man Adrian O'Connell credited as being one local source of information.