Northern Lighthouse Board. Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses (1786-)
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Notes on the Berneray lighthouse and stormy seas, 1867
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/28
Scope and Contents
Notes on the Beàrnaraigh/Berneray [Barra Head] lighthouse describing its situation and the strength of the seas around it, including how sheep sometimes put out to graze on Sgeir Chriosnain 'A green square island which lies in the sound between Ber[neray] and Miulay [Miùghlaigh/Mingulay] and which stands about 100 ft high...have been known to have been swept clean off by one wave' and how on Berneray 'large squ[are] stones...[some] weigh 80 tons...were knocked about on the rocky ledges as if...
Dates:
1867
Story about the building of a lighthouse on Eilean O-bharsa [Orsay] and vocabulary note, June 1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/75
Scope and Contents
Story about the building of a lighthouse on Eilean O-bharsa [Orasaigh/Orsay, Ìle/Islay] that it was built over [Hugh] Mackay's tomb by the Commissioners of Lighthouses [Northern Lighthouse Board] and that whole bodies were wheeled down to Geo-cho'air [Geòdh Chobhair]. The vocabulary note states that 'Seargach' 'Sea foam' or 'tough foam' and 'Co'ar' [cobhar] is 'fresh water foam'.
Dates:
June 1887
Story about the death of [Hugh] MacKay of Rinns of Islay, June 1887
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/76
Scope and Contents
Story about the death of [Hugh] MacKay of Rinns of Islay [Na Roinn Ìleach, Ìle/Islay] that he was 'killed by Mac Lathartaich at Cill Mhic O Charmaig Knapadale...when Mac Aoi [was] going in for a drink' [Cill Mo Charmaig/Kilmachcharmick/Keillmore]. MacKay asked to be buried in Eilean O'arsay [Orasaigh/Orsay] and was only eighteen when he was killed. The tomb is noted as having an inscription and being built on by the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses [North Lighthouse Board]. The story is...
Dates:
June 1887
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- Orsay Kilchoman Argyllshire Scotland 2
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- Archaeology 1
- Barra Head Lighthouse Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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- Exhumation 1
- Family History 1
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- Grimsay Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Keillmore North Knapdale Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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- Pentland Firth Scotland 1
- Sea faring 1
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