File includes copy of draft trial excavation report at Bunratty, Co. Clare by Heather King and John Bradley. Letters between Rynne and Bradley and also correspondence between Rynne and Desmond Houlihan regarding planning application and decision re. development of houses in Bunratty.

File of research and manuscript notes by Etienne Rynne as part of a lecture delivered by Rynne to the Royal Society of Antiquaries. An earlier text of a published article by Rynne included is entitled "The Swastika at Ennis - Symbol of the Resurrection". (North Munster Antiquarian Journal, 32, 1990). Includes extensive notes and research by Rynne on the history and context of the Swastika symbol. Also letters between Rynne and the Royal Society of Antiquaries regarding the planning of the lecture; letters between Rynne and Swami Yogi-Anand, an Indian scholar of swastika symbols (with colour photograph included of Rynne with Yogi-Anand and family.
File 2 includes photographic prints of stone carvings in Ireland which include swastika symbols. Also overhead images used by Rynne in lectures on the topic as well as a body of published research material used in research by Rynne.

Files relating to research by Etienne Rynne on Tao Cross of Killinaboy, Co. Clare.

File 1 Includes off-print of published article by Rynne entitled "The Tau-Cross at Killinaboy: Pagan or Christian?" (North Munster Studies, 1967) and also assorted MS and TS drafts of the article and other written observations.

File 2 includes MS and TS correspondence between Rynne and the Royal Society concerning the lecture; also letters between Rynne and others such as John Wallace and the National Museum of Ireland discussing a find, 'St. Patrick's Farthing' and other 18th C. coins, with etchings of coins on the letter. Also a batch of letters between Rynne and others including Charles Haughey, T.D. and Minister for Finance, regarding a protest "against the proposal to remove certain ancient monuments from their present sites to Dublin for exhibition as a display of modern painting organised by ROSC (Oct 1967) with further letters to Michael Scott and to the Office of Public Works by Rynne detailing the terms of the protest and objections to the exhibition. (1967).

File 3 includes detailed manuscript notes and loose-leaf pages of MS drawings by Rynne on the topic of the Tao Cross.

File 4 includes black and white and also colour photographic prints of Tao at Killinaboy and also images taken of a Tao cross on Tory Island.

File 5 includes image plates and illustrations used by Rynne in his research and lectures on Tao crosses.

File 6 includes press cuttings with letters to the press by Etienne Rynne commenting on the Tao Cross at Killinaboy (1973)

Files of material relating to the crannóg reconstruction project at Craggaunowen, Co. Clare. Includes black and white photographic prints of the construction and final structure of the crannóg at Craggaunowen; letters between Etienne Rynne and Prof. Harold Mytum, Dept of Archaeology, University of York discussing crannóg archaeology and features; text of essay by Etienne Rynne entitled "Craggaunowen: A Valid Reconstruction"; extensive research material utilised by Rynne on the histories ad archaeology of crannógs; and other items related to the study of crannógs by Rynne.

File includes a TS report by Etienne Rynne on excavations at Ballingarry Down (near Knocklong-Ballylanders) Co. Limerick. Also undated letter to Rynne from the Hunt Museum, Limerick attached with a list of items of possible interest within the museum holdings to postgraduate archaeology students at UCG (NUIG).

File includes copy of article by Westropp, being survey of the ancient churches in the county of Limerick", 1905; transcription of carvings [at the church by Etienne Rynne] and letter from a UL student to Rynne seeking information on the church.

File includes research notes and materials by Etienne Rynne concerning John Daly and the Bard of Thomond. Typescript text of lecture delivered by Rynne entitled "John Daly and the Bard of Thomond" (noted to have been published in North Munster Antiquarian Journal, 1977); Typescript of Address to John Daly in Prison, and other research materials.

Letter from Katherine Forsyth to Etienne Rynne seeking information on inscribed stone fragments from Monaincha, Co. Tipperary.

Assorted published articles on aspects of Cashel and Holycross Churches, Co. Tipperary.

File includes manuscript research notes by Etienne Rynne regarding the carved stone plaque found in a bog in 1899 at Lae Mentrim, Co. Meath in 1899. Includes drawings of the stone and its carving as well as black and white photographic prints of the object. Also includes finds record card for similar object found in Emlygrennan, in Cush, Co. limerick.