Books about the region:
"The Way It Was", Paul Gannon" "Conamara"
"The Story of Connemara", Patricia Kilroy, ISBN:0717116603.
"History of Clifden 1810-1860","Patient Endurance, The Great Famine in Connemara" , "Beyond The Twelve Bens"...excerpt-"...In 1880 the process servers for this district (Clifden) were Thomas O'FLAHERTY, Renyle and Letterfrack...", Kathleen Villiers-Tutjill.
"Portrait of a Parish, Ballynakill, Connemara", Tully Cross Guild, Renvyle, Co Galway.
"Letters From the Irish Highlands of Connemara by the Blake Family of Renvyle House, 1823/24", John Murray 1825.
"Connemara", Tim Robinson...excerpt..."...Henry BLAKE purchased the Renvyle estate in 1680 from the Earl of Westmeath, who had been granted it uner the Cromwellian settlement. The O'FLAHERTYs who owned the area before the Cromwellian victory, remained as middlemen and agents of the absentee BLAKEs, untill dismissed in about 1810, when they probably removed to Cloonederowen...The Renvyle Estate stretched from Renvyle Point to Lemnaheltia and Lettergesh East...Ruins of a chapel built by the O'FLAHERTYs in the late 18th c. and turned into a school by the Protestant BLAKEs in the 1830s..." "...Petie SAMMON's grandmother((of Renvyle) maiden name Catherine O'FLAHERTY), witnessed the evictions..."
"Journal of Clifden and Connemara Heritage Group", since Aug. 1993,Ir94124c7 (NLI).
"Hidden Connemara", (author?) ISBN:0951713809
| Renvyle Peninsula | All names and townlands included in the Renvyle Peninsula of Galway, Griffith's Valuation 1855 | |
| Landlords | Some of the major 19th century landlords of the Ballynakill Parish | |
| Ryan and O'Flaherty | Those names found in Griffith's Valuation, Ballynakill Parish, 1855 | |
| Register Eagle's Nest School | Names of children in the NW section of Galway, 1880 | |
| Register Lettergesh School | Names of students in Western Galway, 1879 | |
| Cemetery Link | 'Interment.net' Renvyle Cemetery, a partial transcription | |
| .'Interment. net' | Tooerena cemetery, Mulaghgloss, Galway,a partial transcription by Anna RYAN | |
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