Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland
Found in 120 Collections and/or Records:
Note on a Harris expression using 'seoraiste', 1885
Note on a Harris expression using 'seoraiste' which reads 'Seoraiste = Air mo sheoraiste fhe[in] = mo chomhairle fhein. Harris.' [Na Hearadh]
Note praising the Earl of Dunmore's family, 10 July 1870
Note praising the Earl of Dunmore's family for the improvements they have made to Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris since they purchased it and in particular the Dowager Countess for establishing 'schools of var[ious] kinds which have affected much'.
Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 12 September 1890 to 1895
Notes about shellfish and accompanying story about a drowned cat, June 1887
Notes about shellfish that the 'Maorach-mor [is] larger than Musgan' [razor-fish]; that a rat can eat a razor-fish by putting a stone in one end of it that 'Maorach iallai' is gathered at night; and a story about a cat in Leac a LÌ/Lackalee, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris, which got its tongue caught under a limpet, the limpet closed over it and the cat drowned. Each line of this text has been scored through horizontally.
Notes and story about the strand 'Mol na h-Aoi' and 'Mol na Hearadh', November 1873
Notes and story about the strand 'Mol na h-Aoi' and 'Mol na Hearadh' [Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] that there 'trees + riasg du[bh] sleamhain[n] du[bh] all over the strand at [very] low water' and how the places becomes 'black' when the swell carries away the sand and stones. The story tells how a man in Tarb[ert] [Tairbeart] built a vessel from timber taken from Mol na Hearadh and that the location of the Mol is 'the strand below Alin'.
Notes on a mill at Loch a chrombaich Farm and accompanying sketches, 9 July 1870
Notes on cearban [sunfish or basking shark], 1877
Notes on 'cearban [sunfish or basking shark] Harris' and that old men only saw one female sun-fish and that it produced 12 barrels of oil where generally one would produce 7 to 9 barrels.
Notes on place-names and archaeology made on a journey between Caolas Stiatair House and Tarbert market, 7 July 1870
Notes on the chapels and burial sites on Tarasaigh/Taransay and Stewart of Loscintire [Losgaintir/Luskentyre], 8 July 1870
Notes on the family of Rev Aulay MacAulay, November 1873
Notes on the family of Rev Aulay MacAulay of Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris, that he had six sons, one of whom was a baker in London, 'Mr Coinneach' [Rev Kenneth MacAulay] was the minister of Harris, then Ardnamurchan and then Caladeir [Cawdor] and Mr Aonas [Angus MacAulay] 'is said to have been mi[ni]st[er] of his fath[er]'. 'Coin[neach] Mac Onachai (Morrison) wrote Lord MacAul[ay] with whose people he had a comhaltas [family relationship]. No reply.'