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              UGA P/P120/3/3/9/2/15 · File · 1985-1992
              Part of Personal

              File of correspondence with enclosures mostly relating to Garumna and Leitir Mealláin. Correspondents include:

              Paddy Mulkerrins with notes on Crompán Charraig Thallach, Cnoc Dudley, the McDonagh family, the Comerford family (1985)

              Copy of an OS map with an X marking Balla Shadhbh, and a note to Tim from Pádraic de Bhaldraithe.

              Photocopy of handwritten notes on placenames including Baile na Cille, Poll Uí Mhuirinn, Seanachomhlas, An Droim, An Droim Iochtair, and several more. Also includes notes on features in Leitir Mealláin, with numbering on the side and a (likely) corresponding OS maps (Muintearas FÁS scheme, 1992). (Irish Language).

              Photocopied article 'The Ethnography of Carna and Mweenish in the Parish of Moyruss, Connemara' by Charles R Browne, MD. Contains notes.

              Three issues of 'Glór na nOileán' magazine from 1985.

              Photocopy from 'Scéalta na nOileáin', Peadar Ó Direáin (1929), with a postit note highlighting a reference to Captain Ó Máille.

              Typed field listing of An Ceapach, refers to a corresponding map by Paul Mohr, but this map was not in the original folder.

              Ballinahinch Berridge family
              UGA P/P120/3/3/9/3/3 · File · [1985]-2008
              Part of Personal

              Photocopy of an affidavit by George Edward Jeffries about sporting rights on Roundstone Bog in 1974.

              Photocopy of the will of Richard Berridge II, made in 1946.

              Photocopy and handwritten transcript of Conveyance of lands at Dansan and Ballinahinch (22 June 1872)

              Photographs of Ballinahinch Castle taken in 2004.

              Set of record cards documenting Berridge family history.

              Photocopy of a letter written on 6 November 1875 to the Right Honourable Sir Michael Hicks, from [ ] Robinson. Some items highlighted, reporting on a scene that occurred on the Berridge estate. Typed notes on Richard Berridge I based on research carried out by a Mrs Pine, noting information from the 1861 and 1871 census.

              A page of handwritten notes entitled 'Berridge Mining Documents'.

              Correspondence (Letters with enclosures exchanged between Tim Robinson and James, Will and Dominic and Daniel Berridge. Exchanging information on what is known of the Berridge family, (1985-2006); Letter to Tim Robinson from Tommy Knowland containing information about brewing and a brewery; letter to Tim Robinson from Helen Spellman enclosing a catalogue of sale for Fermoyle Lodge in 1919, built by the Berridges, and mentions Screebe Lodge, Lady Dudley's death, the oyster fisheries in Cuan Chill Chiaráin. (2008).

              Alexander Nimmo
              UGA P/P120/3/3/9/3/9 · File · 1987-2003
              Part of Personal

              A photocopy of the 'First Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the state of the Irish Fisheries, with the minute of evidence 1836', sent to Robinson by Finbar [ ] at Queen's University. Some notes inserted on poverty in Cleggan, the pier in Roundstone, the quay at Ros a Mhíl.. Two pages of Robinson's handwritten notes.

              Copy of a map of the "Harbours of Roundstone and Birterbuy" surveyed by Nimmo for the Commissioners of Irish Fisheries in 1823 (map has been glued together in sections, and the glue has dried - handle with Reading Room Staff supervision).

              Detailed correspondence exchanged with J W de Courcy, Robert Jocelyn and Arnold Horner about Nimmo.

              Photocopy of Alexander Nimmo's entry in the Dictionary of National Biography.

              Alexander Nimmo's map of Kenmare River, Co. Kerry.

              UGA P/P120/3/3/9/3/13 · File · 1959-1984
              Part of Personal

              Transcript of 'Roundstone - a populous solitude', part 4 of a 6-part series called 'Along Many a Mile' by Mervyn Wall. The talk was broadcast on 20 February 1959.

              Letter from Frank Keaney enclosing photocopied notes that shed light on migration to Connemara, possibly from Ulster in the late 18th century (1984).

              A letter to Tim Robinson from Mervyn Wall about the research he carried out in the late 1950s, and enclosing notes. (1984).

              Photocopy of 'Notes and Queries, the diamond fight of 1795'. (1958).

              UGA P/P120/3/3/9/4/1 · File · [1987]-2012
              Part of Personal

              Family tree of the Clements family (Cromwellian Ensign), hand-drawn by Tim. Covers the period 1690s-1950s. Connection to Arigna Mines;

              Correspondence from Mary and Nora Keane, forwarding enclosures with information about clergy in the Kilbride Parish, and information on Fr Durkan, Fr Hugh O'Rourke and others. (1996);

              Letter from Una Hoydal requesting information on a man who once lived in Dog's Bay of the name Santiago (18th century), (2003);

              Correspondence from Rionach uí Ógáin, National Folklore Archive, seeking information on people Séamus Ennis met on the course of his travels, and two pages of handwritten notes (beginning mid sentence) of a story told to Tim by Miss Dundass in Roundstone in 1984 about her grandfather. (2005);

              Correspondence from Mary Pat Joyce with information on the Joyce family of Muintir Eoin, enclosed folder of information on the family from 1856, and covering the period of Parnell and the Land League. (2012);

              Letter from Patrick Melvin referencing the Blakes of Doon House, (undated);

              A poem 'Replies from Inishlacken';

              Press cuttings relating to a bridge at Inis Ní.

              Additional secondary reading
              UGA P/P120/3/3/9/4/3 · File
              Part of Personal

              File of photocopies of additional reading from the following data sources, articles and books (some containing Robinson's handwritten notes, some with cover notes from people who sent them). These largely cover Protestant Missions but include other information too:

              Substantial photocopies from 'History of the Archdiocese of Tuam' by Monsignor D'Alton, (1928), and 4 pages of Robinson's handwritten notes;

              'The Bible in Ireland' by Asenath Nicholson (c. 1845);

              'Fifty Years in The Irish Mission' by the Rev. Hamilton Magee (undated);

              Photocopies from 'Records of the Connemara Orphan's Nursery', with some post-it notes indicating items of Robinson's interest including 'Tarbot Resistance', Glenowen for girls, kidnapping, D'Arcy rectory;

              'A Short Visit to the Connemara Missions, A Letter by the Rev W C Plunkett BA', (1863);

              'The Saxon in Ireland, or the Rambles of an Englishman' by J H Ashworth, (1851);

              Cover note from Michael Gibbons enclosing selected photocopies from 'The Letters of Lord Chief Baron Edward Willes to the Earl of Warwick, 1757-1762', in which he writes on the Joyce family (undated);

              'A Tour in Connacht', Caesar Otway (1839);

              'The Irish Sketch Book and Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo' by W M Thackeray, (1875);

              'Irish Life in the Seventeenth Century' by Edward MacLysacht, (1969);

              'Letters from Ireland' by Harriet Martineau, (1852);

              'Through Connemara in a Governess Cart', (1893);

              'Sketches of the Irish Highlands', by Rev A McManus (1863);

              Letters from Patrick Gageby enclosing the following 3 items:

              Obituary for James Keyworth, (1864);

              Connemara Past and Present' by the Rev Joseph Denham Smith (1853);

              Envelope of 10 photographs of Irish Church Mission banners (referenced in P Gageby's cover letter);

              'Lift up a standard, the centenary story of the society for Irish Church Missions' by A E Hughes;

              'The Protestant Crusade in Ireland, 1800-70', Desmond Bowen;

              A photograph of the Protestant Church in Moyrus in 1910, sent to Tim from Frank Keaney;

              Pages of Robinson's handwritten notes on the Protestant crusade in Ireland;

              Correspondence between Tim Robinson, the Very Revd W J Grant, J F Buttimore, Raymond Rafausse, Rev Michael Molloy about a church near Ballinahinch Castle which transferred from Church of Ireland to Roman Catholic in 1959. Enclosures include extracts from the Parish history of Ballyconnely and Claddaghduff. A photocopy from the Calendar of Papal Registers 1471-1484, on Moyrus, and a copy of a church newsletter from Kilmilkin in Leenane, which gives a history of the church from Early Christian times 500 - the Penal Laws 1829 (1987-1989);

              Newspaper cutting on Ethel Mannin;

              Letter from Roddy (R.P.) McCaffrey of Robinson, Keefe, Devane enclosing a description of Cashel Church (1997);

              'Burke's Guide to Country Houses, Vol 1 Ireland'. Short note from Patrick Farrell to Tim enclosing a photograph captioned 'Teachín na bPrayers', and a small painted sketch of the house as he remembers it, (1997).

              UGA P/P120/3/3/9/5/2 · File · 1980-1992
              Part of Personal

              Correspondence with John Waddell, Department of Archaeology at UCG, with notes on middens at Connemara sites, wedge graves, orientations of stone alignments with connections to astronomy (1980-1986);

              Correspondence with Etienne Rynne arranging a meeting to discuss field surveys (1983); and enclosing a rubbing of a stone in the old fishery store in Roundstone (1987);

              Correspondence with Seán Ó Nualláin, Archaeological Department, OS, reporting information on wedge graves and standing stones (1982);

              Letter from M Conroy of the PWE inviting Tim to a meeting on the production of a computerised Sites and Monuments Record (1986);

              Note from Finbar McCormick of Queen's University Belfast relating to old tombs and death stones (1986);

              Correspondence with Paul Walsh, OS relating to new sites of megalithic interest discovered by Tim in the West (1987);

              Correspondence from John Sheehan, Gearóid Carey, Éamon P Kelly, and Deirdre Crombie seeking information on locations (1988);

              Correspondence between Dr M O'Connell and Frank Lydon marking a mass rock on a map;

              Letter from Jim Higgins regarding an article he is writing on Crannógs.

              Small file of handwritten notes - a list of sites marked "for survey" with ticks on the side, 3 photographs of corn kilns taken in Roundstone 1989, a two-page piece on South Connemara and placenames, written 6 March 1987, and another copy with edits. Photocopy of "Galway Castles and Owners in 1574" by J P Nolan. Press cuttings 1984-1998 on archaeological discoveries in the West.

              Folder of correspondence between Paul Gosling (Archaeology UCG) and Tim. Exchanges information and new discoveries at sites including at Glencraff, tracings and ideas on work submitted for publication. (1985-1992).

              UGA P/P120/3/3/9/6/5 · File · [n.d.]
              Part of Personal

              Printed thesis by Eibhlín Ní Scannláin of Roinn na Tíreolaíochta, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Gaillimh. 'Landscape change in the Connemara National Park area since the early nineteenth century', a study commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin, directed by Dr Mary Cawley, Dept of Geography, UCG.

              Three pages of handwritten notes by Tim.

              Includes lyrics of a song composed by Michael Cohen of Letterfrack, and exploration of glaciation, but also archaeology and forestry.

              UGA P/P120/3/3/9/7/1 · File · 1983-1985
              Part of Personal

              Correspondence between Professor Victor Westhoff and Tim Robinson including enclosures, listed below. Correspondence mentions Letterdyfe House, and the old Irish tree alphabet. Enclosures include:

              'Man's attitude towards vegetation' V Westhoff (1983);

              'Letters from the Irish Highlands', which was written by various members of the Black family in 1825;

              'The Archives of the peat bogs' by Sir Harry Godwin;

              'The Relationships of some bog communities in Western Galway' by D J Boatman (1960);

              'The vegetation and flora of some islands in the Connemara Lakes' by D A Webb and E V Glanville (1962);

              'The influence of the sea and of parent material on wetlands and blanket bog in West-Connemara, Ireland' (1975);

              'Roundstone Bog: the challenges for conservation' Mary O'Connor (Botany UCG), with copy letter to O'Connor from Robinson, with queries about the term 'dubh locháin' for peat-bottomed lakes and a query about slime mould;

              'The Biology of Fungi' by C T Ingold, 'Irish Myxomycetes' by B Ing and D W Mitchell;

              'Vegetation succession in lakes of West Connemara, Ireland: comparing predicted and actual changes' by van Groenendael, Reopers, Woltjer and Zweers (1996);

              'Soligenous influences on wetlands and blanket bog in Western Connemara, Ireland' van Groenendael, Hochstenbach, van Mansfield and Roozen (1981);

              A photocopied table of plant communities of lakes in West Connemara.