Set of index cards giving a brief description of the townland of Omey Island, [Iomaí]. Included are a note on the island and its ecclesiastical history which grew from St. Feichín erecting an Abbey there. Also included are descriptions of Guairín an tSionnaigh, Trá Rabhach, Dúirlic, Gabhair, Cora Bhuí, Fó Mhór, Boilg Buí, Tóin Rua, Gooreen, Corcran ( a graveyard), Trá na nÉan, Teampaill Feichín, Tobar Feichín (includes a small illustration of a plain wooden cross above a recess), Oileán na Cíocra, Carraig Gorham, Fó Tobar, Poll Mór, Loch Feichín, Teampall Feichín, Dobhar na Raithní, Béal an Oileáin, Dobhar Mháirtín, Cloon, Trá Chóil, Omey House (now in ruins, once the home of the Bodkin family), Cúltrá, Cartoorbeg, Cnocán na mBan (local story about the ill fate of one of Cromwell's men who was interred there), shell middens, the local graveyard (which includes a Celtic Cross for those who drowned in the Cleggan Bay disaster. The inscriptions of the names of the 16 local men who lost their lives in the tragedy are included here). Also included are descriptions of Loch na Marcán, a note on the possible site of the Protestant schoolhouse (includes an anecdote about the Catholic curate being struck over the head with a soup ladle in the 19th century). Sturrakeen, and within it Kierney's House, the Protestant Church, Omey Strand, and Lochán na Long are also described. Michael Cahill and Jo McDonagh are credited as being sources of some of the local information.
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Overview list of the following townlands within the Roman Catholic Parish of Omey or Ballindoon. This incorporates the Civil Parish of Omey, minus Barnanoraun, and the Civil Parish of Ballindoon, (plus Tullaghlumman More and Derrycunagh). The cards include the Irish and English language renditions of the townland names.
Ardbear [Ard Béara], Derrycunlagh [Coire Chunlaigh], Derrylea [Doire Liath], Faul [Na Fáil], Gowlaun West [Gabhlán], Killymongaun [Cill Uí Mhongáin], and Tullaghlumman More [Tulach Lomáin Mhór].
Three copies of Bulletin of the Computer Arts Society from February 1971, with a piece on environmental works showcased by Robinson the previous year. 'A Structured Arena, Timothy Drever'.
Third party letter with attachments from Tony Whilde of the Corrib Conservation Centre to Lilliput Press proposing a book on the natural history of Lough Corrib.
'Writing blind' notes for 'On the Cultivation of the Compass Rose', including translated and transcribed extracts from Marcel Proust's 'Du coté de chez Swann', and 'A la recherche du temps perdu'.
Letter from Robinson (and response) to the Editor of the Cartographic Journal submitting his piece for the journal's June 1992 edition.
Press cuttings relating to the opening of the new Boys' National School in Finglas, County Dublin, where Eoghan Ó Tuairisc was vice-principal.
Correspondence from guilds regarding the arrangements for the operation of the parish plan.
"Song sheet for ""Orange and Green will Carry the Day"" by Thomas Davis. It is issued by Sluagh Siothchána na hÉireann, seeking to keep Ireland neutral."
Order form for books from the Gaelic League [in Irish].
Order form for books from Gaelic League [in Irish].
Reports from the organisation team looking at the structures, development and governance of Muintir na Tíre.
Handwritten notes, and typed drafts with handwritten edits of 'Orion the Hunter'.
Included in this file is fax and written correspondence between Tim Robinson and Christopher Cahill, the editor in chief of the Journal of the American Irish Historical Society - 'The Recorder' (see notes field for transcriptions of 2 badly faded faxes). Also included are rights agreements from this publisher, and from a Japanese publisher, and a newspaper cutting from the London Review of Books.