Pre-Plantation Housing Research

Reference code: HOYFM.ACL2024.37
Level of description: Fonds
Title: Pre-Plantation Housing Research
Scope and content: Many documents from the excavations and work surrounding sites of pre-plantation housing in the 1970s and 80s. Two black and white photographs of house sites; a letter from Dr P. Robinson of the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland containing a house plan in Co. Antrim (1985); a photocopy of a paper: A Contribution to the Study of cultivation ridges in Ireland by Jonathan Bell (1985); a photocopy of documentary evidence for Irish domestic buildings c. 400-1200 (1979); a letter to Philip Robinson from Chris Lynn concerning an archaeological site at ‘Deerpark’; an photocopied article on the work at Deer Park (1986); a handwritten diagram and letter pertaining to the discovery of a sod house (1988); a photocopied, sellotaped newspaper clipping on the subject; an Ulster Folk and Transport Museum building record of the site with affixed photographs; typescript print of a paper on excavations at Glenmakeeran Co. Antrim, followed by an annotated copy; a handwritten letter to Dr Robinson on Pitt’s Cottage (1983); miscellaneous notes; a typescript paper on ‘Booleying in Antrim’ followed by an annotated copy; a miscellaneous reference sheet; two more unannotated typescript copies of the paper; a map of the site; photocopied texts on archaeological fieldwork in Antrim; diagrams of ‘site A’ and ‘site B’; a letter to Nick Brannon on an article (1983); a letter to Philip on an OS Memoir from Mrs. Given (1984); letters from the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (1994); a sheet on ‘Lime Kilns of The Ards’; The Outlook paper issue 8th of October 1987; a portion of a land survey map of Linen Hill, County Down dated 1834; a typescript list of identified pre 1780s houses from A. Rowan in Northwest Ulster, areas include: Fermanagh, Tyrone, Londonderry, Donegal; coloured photographs of pre-plantation houses; a letter from Michael McGuinness concerning the aforementioned photographs under a heritage project (1988); photocopied land survey maps; more correspondence on the thatched houses (1984); a typescript letter to Mrs McCaw from Alan Gailey of the Department of Buildings concerning editing errors (1984); a reply; a photocopy of a section of Ulster Folklife number 23 (1977); a surveying map and inventory for sites.