Item 14 - Maps of Connemara

Research maps of Connemara used by Tim Robinson in plotting Folding Landscapes' Connemara map. Included are the 1848-9 Bedford map of 'Inishbofin and the Adjacent Coast of Galway between Rinvyle and Aughrus Points' at a scale of 1/21,120. This version of the map was published in 1860 and includes some corrections from the original map. A poster of Cuan na Beirtrí Buí featuring Craobh, Cill, and Ceann Ramhar, put together in 2009 and based on the 1839 OS map, with placenames collected by Tim Robinson from Micheál King of Inishnee and others. Sheets 27, 28, and 40 of the Co. Galway six inch OS maps, covering the area to the North West of Lough Corrib, around Kilannin. Chart entitled Dalradian geology of the Bennabeola area of Co. Galway, scale 1/50,000. This chart has marked out the rock composition of this area of Connemara. Chart of the Geology of Slyne Head Connemara, mapping carried out by Professor B. E. Leake, of the Department of Geology in the University of Glasgow, 1985. Laminated plan of the proposed Marina at Roundstone, carried out by Cyril J. Kelly and Associates, scale 1/500, done in 2001. Printed negative of a section of the Connemara map covering Preaghillaun, and Ballyconneelly (or is this Aran map?). Proof of the 2nd edition of the Aran map, with instructions for sizing. Copy of a section of a map by Murdoch Mackenzie Senior dated 1797, the survey was made 1767-8, and was published as 'A Maritime Survey of Ireland and West of Great Britain, Vol 1, 1776' (some glue/tape residue at the back of the page). Sheet 94 of the OS for Co. Galway and Mayo, with a scale of 1 inch to a mile, with Ballinahinch to the West. Serial cross sections through the Bennabeola area, and cross sections for the Geological map of Connemara, put together by the University of Glasgow. Map outlining the mineral deposits of Ireland, put together by the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland in 1984. Historical six inch OS map titled (Historical?) Townland Index No. 10 at scale of 1 inch to a mile (there are 3 of these cut up). Several copies of both the Ordnance Survey and Geological Survey of Ireland sheets 83 (Inishbofin OS), 84 (Killary Harbour OS), 93 (Clifden OS), 94 (Recess OS), 103 (Slyne Head OS), 104, 114 (Ballyvaughan OS and GS), 115 (Loughrea OS and GS), 123 (Ennistymon OS and GS), and Gort (OS and GS) - 16 items in total with some duplication, and some annotations on some of the maps. 3 cut out photocopies of sections of these maps. Historical map of Co. Clare, reprinted by OS in 1965, and a trace outline of some of the sections. Two copies of 'The Geology of Connemara', a one inch map produced by Glasgow University in 1981, and some explanatory notes stuck on. Bedford Map of Clifden and Mannin Bays to Aughris Point. Draft map of Connemara with Tim Robinson's annotations. Bedford map of Ballynakill and Bedford Bays. Bedford Map of Slyne Head. 8 copies of 2nd edition Aran map, and 14 copies of 1st edition Burren map. (Drawer 2)

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