Printed email from Graham Mullen to Robinson, who has worked on the Burren cave index with Tony Boycott (see P120/3/2/2/2). Requests that Robinson read and comment on an article by Charlie (his colleague, Charles Self) 'The Caves of the Aran Islands'. The text of the paper is included.
Manuscript
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Handwritten references to sources Robinson intends to consult, and Library request slips. As well as sources relating to Land History, the Civil Survey and Forts on Aran, it also includes notes on the Irish Iodine and Marine Salts Manufacturing Co Ltd, and a list of newspaper microfilms.
Photocopy listing sources for the study of Irish Culture taken from UCG Library.
File of letters complimenting Tim Robinson on his maps and writings on Aran.
File of personal and professional correspondence.
Two letters to Tim from Derek Weber, Editor of Geographical Magazine outlining a brief for an article to be written by Tim on the Aran Islands in the post-Flaherty era, using his map as its centre-point. (14-21 Apr 1975) 2pp;
Handwritten letter to Tim from his father Frank, updating him on his search for material by Edward Lhuyd (17 May 1982) 2pp;
Handwritten letter to Tim from Antoine Powell in Irish language, about the distribution of his book. (5 Feb 1984) 2pp;
Handwritten letter to Tim Robinson from Gerry Reynolds enclosing the 'Be Brothers' booklet of the Jesus Caritas Fraternity of Priests, thanking Tim for allowing them to reproduce his map of Aran in the booklet. (15 Apr 1995). 9pp;
Handwritten letter to Tim and Máiréad Robinson from Tom Cluney, a Texas man who spent a summer in Aran in the early 1980's, and a copy of Tim's response. (26 Oct 2005 - 31 Jan 2006). The letter encloses a photograph of 2 smiling men in an embrace, named on the back as Mikey McDonagh and Brian Ferity. The letter includes rich reminiscences of the author's memory of them. 6pp;
Handwritten letter to Tim from Julian [ ] enclosing an article on the Aran Islands distinctive walls (14 Dec 2010) 2pp.
Additional correspondence in the file includes Christmas cards and postcards from several different correspondents. 11pp.
Material relating to Tim Robinson's first map of the Burren, 'The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare'. The map was published in 1977. The archive includes annotated reference maps, field notes, correspondence relating to placenames and archaeological sites. See P120/3/2/4/5 for a conference paper given by Robinson in 1999 in which he describes his Burren mapping methodology
File of six-inch Ordnance Survey maps of Clare from the 1915 and 1916 editions. There are 13 in total, sheet numbers: 1, 2, 3 & 3a, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 14 & 8a, 15, 16 and 17.
The maps have been annotated by Tim Robinson with borders outlined in coloured ink, and notes in pencil. An indexing system used on the maps by Robinson corresponds with his field notebook (see P120/3/2/1/2).
Red hardback notebook for the 1st edition of the Burren map. Contains an indexing system that corresponds to the annotations Robinson has made on Ordnance Survey maps (see P120/3/2/1/1). The indexes include megalithic tombs, pre-historic forts and dolmens that correspond to T J Westropp's work, forts and dolmens not described by Westropp, peel towers, map sketches of towns, sketches of flora, sketches of carvings, and lists of cooking sites.
Box of index cards with 307 numbered cards, each assigned to a townland in the Burren. The cards begin in Ballyvaughan, and continue South ending up in Tulla. These cards are not as detailed as the placename index for the Aran Islands and Connemara (P120/1). Some of the cards contain summary information about a holy well or another feature Robinson wished to remember. The numbers do not correspond to the notebook.
Three copies of a list of Burren Placenames. The first list is a handwritten draft with lots of notes. The second list is typed, and arranged into 3 columns that give the OS form of the place name, other known versions of the name, and the suggested Irish form. The third list is a carbon copy of the typed list and has several handwritten edits from Robinson and Micheál Ó Maolchaoine / Michael (Pop) Mulqueeny.