Photocopy of Fr M D Conroy's memoirs, (January 1943). Fr Conroy was ordained in 1884, and appointed to Leitir Mealláin / Lettermullan and Carraroe, and ordered to build a church in Leitir Mealláin. His memories outline Parish Priests and local churches and schools in the areas from the time of his ordination. It covers Ada Yeats who taught lace making in Croe, evictions and rioting in Croe, Casheen Bay as a safe anchorage for the Duke of Edinburgh when distributing food and clothing to the poor, the arrival of German v-boats there during the first World War. The role of the Comerford family of Kinvara. It covers in detail the division of Killannin into Killannin, Spiddal, and Killeen, and Fr Coyne's objection when Killanin was given to Galway in 1890. Fr Conroy later encountered problems with Fr Coyne's faction, with several confrontations involving a police presence and subsequent trial. Two pages of Robinson's handwritten notes accompany the memoir.

A handwritten note in Tim's writing to say they are a copy of the typescript in possession of Fr M Lang, the Parish Priest at An Cheathrú Rua.

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).

Correspondence with Michael Gibbons with several enclosures of maps, site-reports, and articles, discussing megaliths, crannógs, ring-forts, stone rows, a cross on Inis Ní and cross slabs on Omey Island.

Copies of the following articles:

'The Cultural Landscape of the Irish Coast: 2007 Omey Island Heritage Research';

Press cutting from Connacht Tribune about the discovery of a 1,200 year old mass grave in Connemara, a site exposed by sea erosion (1993);

'An t-Oileánach' (the Island Trust Newsletter) article on Omey Island's Mace Head (undated);

'Hiberno-Norse Ringed Pin from Omey Feichín, Connemara', Michael Gibbons and Myles Gibbons (2005);

'Croagh Patrick, Co. Mayo in the Archaeology and History of Ireland', Michael Gibbons and Gerry Walsh;

'Fortified Stone Lake-Dwellings on Islands in Lough Skannive, Connemara', Edgar L Layard (1897);

'An Introduction to Connemara's Archaeological Heritage', which lists archaeological and historical sites marked on a map, organised for a guided tour;

Draft copy 'The Island habitation sites of Connemara', Michael Gibbons and Jim Higgins.

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).

Photocopies from the Monuments Dataset of the Archaeological Survey of Co Galway. All sites are in Connemara. The metadata captured includes the site classification, designation, condition, any threats, and a description of the site. (1 folder).

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).

'Hunter Gatherer Strategies in the Mesolithic: The Evidence from Western Connacht' by Michael Gibbons, Jim Higgins, Myles Gibbons (2005);

'The Irish Townland System of Landscape Organisation' by Thomas McErlean (1983);

Findings on Doonloghan by Finbar McCormick (1986);

'Bronze Age to Medieval Coastal Shell Middens near Ballyconneely, Co Galway', by Finbar McCormick, Michael Gibbons, Francis Gerald McCormac and Janine Moore (1996);

'Some Observations on the sites and monuments record of County Mayo' by Michael Gibbons, Olive Alcock, Tom Condit, Mary Tunney (1991);

'An unrecorded wedge-tomb at Scrahillia, Cashel, Connemara" by Gabriel Cooney (1984) with cover note;

Draft of 'Connemara's Emerging Prehistory' by Michael Gibbons and Jim Higgins;

'Aspects of Connemara's Prehistoric Landscape - the archaeological and paleobotanical evidence' by Michael Gibbons and Jim Higgins;

Print out of the distribution of sites in Connemara and the Aran Islands, September 1987;

'A Viking Burial in County Galway' by Joseph Raftery (1960);

'Notes on some of the Antiquities of the Barony of Ballinahing, Co. Galway' by Lord Killanin, undated;

'Notes on some of the antiquities of the Barony of Moycullen, Co Galway; by Lord Killanin (undated);

'Economy and settlement in Rural Ireland' Bruce Proudfoot (undated);

'Antiquities of Co Galway - an introduction' for Galway Official Guide to City and County;

'Ambergris: a lost link between Connemara and Andalusia' Michael Gibbons and Myles Gibbons (2009);

'Understanding Irish Landscape Evolution Pollen Assemblages from Neogene and Pleistocene palaeosurfaces in Western Ireland' Pete Coxon (2001);

'Modernes Wallfahrtwesen in Westirland' by Elisabeth Walther (1980), in German;

'Stone Basins (some examples from the West of Scotland on guides to typology' by A D Lacaille (1944), with a cover letter to Tim from Noel Dunne (1988).

Letter from B E Leake, Professor of Geology, The University Glasgow, to Máiréad Robinson regarding a geological map of Connemara (1985);

Correspondence between Tim Robinson and P W Geoff Tanner of the Geology Department at Glasgow University. Enquires about work carried out on an excursion to Maam on the contours of the Twelve Bens regions, and subsequent discussion of the Connemara map. (1985-1990);

Correspondence between Professor Paul Mohr, Geology Department, UCG and Tim Robinson with enclosures. Robinson asking Mohr to "vet the geology" in a piece he has written, and requesting clarification on the Shannawonna fault. A piece by Paul Mohr entitled 'History of Connacht Geology' looking at early amateur geologists, the Bog Commissioners' Engineers, Richard Griffith, Patrick Ganly, Joseph Verschoule - Archdeacon of Achonry. A subsequent piece 'Early Concepts and Discoveries in Geology: A Synopsis for Students' put together by Mohr. A 1991 photograph of Robinson at the fault line, Fó Uí Mháille, Ballinaleama is attached to one letter. (1987-1995);

Letter from Mary McDonagh Robinson enclosing a map showing minerals in the Galway area. (2004);

Letter from Ronán Hennessy, Department of Earth and Ocean Science at NUI Galway with enclosures:

A 3D map of Turlough Hill, Co Clare, showing hut sites;

'A model of subaqueous sedimentation at the margin of the Late Midlandian Irish Ice Sheet, Connemara, Ireland, and its implications for regionally high isostatic sea levels', Geoffrey S P Thomas and Richard C Chiverrell;

'Understanding Irish Landscape Evolution: Pollen assemblages from neogene and pleistocene palaeosurfaces in Western Ireland', Pete Coxon;

Programme and abstracts for the 47th Irish Geological Research Meeting, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, NUI Galway, 2004;

Photocopy of 'The Geology of the Roundstone ultrabasic complex, Connemara'., D L Bremner and B E Leake.

Reference material, most forwarded on from Professor Paul Mohr, Geology Department at UCG and containing some cover notes from him:

List of regional events taking place in Connacht for Irish Geology Week, September 1988;

A list of abstracts from a Connemara discussion meeting at the Department of Geology in the University of Glasgow, November 1988;

'A deep seismic reflection transect across the Irish Caledonides', S L Klemperer, P D Ryan and D B Snyder (1991);

'Drumlins and the Veichsel Glaciation of Connemara', Antony R Orme (1967);

'Major southward thrusting of the Dalradian rocks of Connemara, western Ireland', Bernard Leake, P W Geoff Tanner, and D Singh (1983);

'Report on a discussion meeting on the geology of Connemara, Western Ireland', P Mohr and M Feely;

'The metagabbros, orthogneisses and paragneisses of the Connemara complex, western Ireland' BE Leake (1989);

'Tectomnically reset RB-Sr system duringLate Ordovician terrane assembly in lapetus, western Ireland', P S Kennan, F C Murphy (1987);

'Strike-slip terranes and a model for the evolution of the British and Irish Caledonides', Donald H W Hutton (1987);

'Stratigraphy, structure and metamorphism of Dalradian rocks of the Maumturk Moutains, Connemara, Ireland', by Michael Edward Badley (1976);

'A summary geological history of Connemara' from Mrs O'Tool, Seals Rock Hotel;

'Tertiary Delerite intrusions of west-central Ireland' by Paul Mohr (1982);

'An outline of the geomorphology of Murrisk and North-West Galway', J F Dewey and W S McKerrow;

'Geosyncline-Margin Sedimentary Rocks in Silurian of West Connacht, Ireland', David J W Piper;

'The Wenlock sediments of north-west Galway, Ireland' (1970);

'Llanvrin stratigraphy of the Galway-Mayo border area, western Ireland', J B Archer;

'Does the Variscan front in Ireland follow a destral shear zone?', M D Max and J P Lefort (1984);

Map entitled 'Geology of Errismore',

The Geological Survey of Ireland, 'Mineral Exploration and Development in Ireland', 1981.

'Irish Hill Days' by Alan F. Airey;

'Frost and Fire, Natural Engines, Tool-Marks and chips';

'The Intellectual Observer Review of Natural History, Microscopic Research and Recreative Science';

'Hand-book to Galway, Connemara, and the Irish Highlands, profusely illustrated by Jas Mahony';

'A Tour in Connemara with Remarks in its great physical capabilities' by George Preston White;

'The Dublin Penny Journal', with a piece on Clifden Castle, March 192[?];

'Gleanings in the West of Ireland' by the Hon and Rev S Godolphone Osborne.

Printed out email correspondence between Professor Paul Ryan and Tim Robinson on the Skird / Skerd Rock fault, and the positioning of the Iapetus suture (2009).

Copies of the following articles with some notes:

'The Galway Granite' by M D Max, C B Long and M A Geoghegan (1978);

'Granite magmas: their sources, initiation and consequences of emplacement', B E Leake (1990);

'The crystallization history and mechanism of emplacement of the western part of the Galway Granite, Connemara, Western Ireland', B E Leake (1974);

'The Spatial Distribution of K, U, Th and surface hear production in the Galway Granite, Connemara, Western Ireland', M Feely and J S Madden (1986);

Abstracts from a Connemara Discussion Meeting held in the Department of Geology at UCG in September 1990;

'Tectonic position of the Dalradian rocks of Connemara and its bearing on the evolution of the Midland Valley of Scotland', B E Leake, P W Geoff Tanner, R M Macintyre, and E Elias;

'The petrochemistry of the basic volcanic rocks on the South Connemara Group (Ordovician), Western Ireland', P D Ryan, M D Max, and T Kelly;

'Preliminary report on the geology of the north-western approaches to Galway Bay and part of its landward area', from the Geological Survey of Ireland Report Series, undated, with map enclosure and post it notes.