Letter to Robinson from Seán Browne, Regional Manager of Shannonside, The Mid-Western Regional Tourism Organisation Ltd congratulating him on the first copy of the Burren map, and making arrangements for a press launch. Copy reply from Robinson asking for approximately a dozen people from the Burren and the Ordnance Survey to be included in arrangements for the launch.
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Printed press release announcing the publication of 'Connemara After the Famine, The Journal of a Survey of the Martin Estate' by Thomas Colville Scott.
Handwritten notes with costs, and quotes from several printing companies with the cost of setting and printing the manuscript 'Mapping South Connemara'. This file includes a specification of the print order.
Programme for Cúirt 2007, featuring a talk by Tim Robinson on 'Connemara: Listening to the Wind'.
Proof with handwritten edits of the manuscript. Preceded by a file of typed notes on each chapter.
Copy letter from Robinson to Brendan Barrington (undated) giving instructions on font for the published copy, and enclosing a map with a tracing for inclusion in 'The Last Pool of Darkness'.
File of material objecting to proposals to build three wind turbines on Inis Meáin.
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.
Clare county council map of the townland of Tullycommon, with Poulnagollum Cave and a ring fort highlighted in pink marker. The map is entitled 'Proposed Amenity Scheme at Tullycommon (Cahercommaun)', and is a section taken from an OS map.
Letter with enclosures from Paul Hughes of Derrigimlagh Restoration Group (incorporating the Clifden Airfield Committee) to Dr Emer Colleran of the Microbiology Department at UCD, outlines a proposed joint venture to include a Marconi Interpretive Centre, An Alcock and Brown Interpretive Centre, a reconstruction of the narrow-gauge railway which would be used for Bog Rail Tours, a possible extension of the railroad to include Roundstone Bog, an Interpretive Centre for Roundstone Bog, a grass airstrip for light aircraft, a common access road for the above projects,and car parking. Enclosed are maps and documents for preliminary discussion.
Two copies of the final published book 'Mapping South Connemara: Parts 1-29 Cashel, Carna Cill Chiaráin'. Published by Folding Landscapes.