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OMEY ISLAND
A GEOLOGICAL
AND HUMAN HISTORY
CONTENTS
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- PART ONE:
THE MAKING OF AN ISLAND
Chapter One: An Obvious Theory, but a Wrong One...
Chapter Two: Long Ago and Far Away
Chapter Three: The Quaternary, and the Arrival of Humans
Chapter Four: A Closer Look at the Omey Granite Pluton
Chapter Five: The Real 'Making of an Island'
Appendix A: Estimating Sea Level Changes Over the
Past 20,000 years
Past 20,000 years
Chapter Six: Noticing the Geology of Omey Island Today
- PART TWO:
THE PEOPLING OF OMEY: FROM
PREHISTORIC TO MODERN TIMES
Chapter Seven: Omey Island in Prehistory
Chapter Eight:
An Island of Saints: The Early Medieval
Period
Chapter Nine: After St Feichin, What?
Chapter Ten: Of Ui Flaithbertaigh and Ui Tuathaill
Chapter Eleven: The English Subdue
Connemara
Chapter Twelve: The Complexities of Land Ownership on Omey from the 17th to the Late 19th Century
Chapter Thirteen: A Century of Death and Destitution Alongside Development
Chapter Fourteen: Relief, Religion, Riots
Chapter Fifteen: Towards the
Twentieth Century and a New
Order
- PART THREE: EPILOGUE
Chapter Sixteen: What Will
Become of Omey?
- Appendix B: Burial Plans for Six Different Levels
of Medieval Cemetery, Based on Notes Taken
During the Excavations in the Early 1990s
- Appendix C: Griffith's Valuation 1855 (tabulated)
- Appendix D: 1901 Census (Omey Island):
Tabulated Data
- Appendix E: Listing of Emigrant Ships Outward
Bound from Galway (1827-1885); and from Sligo
(1803-1873)
Appendix F: Some Omey Place-
names (in Irish), Some Now Passed
from Common Usage
Tra na nEan (name from App. F: Place-names given to Tim Robinson in 1949 by Michael Cohill and Joseph McDonagh)
REFERENCES (By Chapter)
INDEX
Tra Choil, at the southern end of Omey
(From Appendix F - Omey Place-names)