File 3 - Proposal to build golf course in Inis Mór / Inishmore

30pp

File of material relating to the proposal to build a golf course on Inishmore.

Site survey for the proposed 18 hole golf and pitch and putt course on Inis Mór, carried out by Eddie Hacket, a member of the British Association of Golf Course Architects, and sent to Eamonn O'Biathaigh, Manager of Forbairt Pobal Teo. (24 July 1989) 16pp;

Photocopy of a handwritten letter from Tim Robinson to an tUasal Pól Ó Foighil, Fine Gael Senator (4 October 1989), in which he summarises his objections to the proposal, and encloses a copy of an article he has written for the Galway Advertiser. 3pp;

Three newspaper clippings from Galway Advertiser and Connacht Tribune reporting on the proposal (21 Sep 1989-14 Nov 1989) 3pp;

Print-out of a letter from Tim Robinson to the Editor of the Connacht Tribune responding to remarks made by Senator Ó Foighil, and explaining his objections on conservation grounds to protect the rare Purple Milk Vetch, likely to have been flourishing since the Ice Age, and the ruins of an ancient field system dating back to the late Stone Age. The letter confronts some of the language used by those in favour of the proposal (19 Nov 1989) 2pp;

Typed submission and its corresponding press clipping of an article published in the Connacht Tribune (24 Nov 1989), 'Golf course plan 'harmful' to Aran', 3pp;

Handwritten letter to Robinson from Michael Muldoon to Tim commenting on the golf course proposal, and a proposed sewage scheme for Kilronan, (13 Dec 1989) 3pp.

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