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Máirtín Ó Direáin - Fathach File / Reluctant Modernist

High Island

Item

Title

High Island

Description

Set of index cards giving a description of the townland of High Island, [Ardoileán]. Included are a note on Richard Murphy, the poet, who bought High Island in the 1960's, and a general note on the terrain of the island itself. Also included are descriptions of The Chisters (two islets called Carrickarone on the OS maps), Dublin (a passage between cliffs), Fuagh na Cara, Fuagh an Mhianaigh, Promontory Fort, and the Copper Mine. A fisherman on the island provided some of the local information.
High Island.

Format

10pp

Identifier

nuigalway:2702
ead-unitid: p120_1_6_34

Relation

Tim Robinson
full:001:https://digital.library.nuigalway.ie/islandora/object/nuigalway:2702
thumb:001:https://digital.library.nuigalway.ie/islandora/object/nuigalway:2702/datastream/TN/view

Subject

description--Ardoilen--descriptions--Carrickarone--Mhianaigh--Promontory--fisherman--information--Omey Civil Parish Clifden Roman Catholic Parish