MacDonald (of Glencoe)
Family
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Song beginning 'Chuir si mo chri air a phlosgail' and accompanying story, 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/171
Scope and Contents
Song probably collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, beginning 'Chuir si mo chri air a phlosgail' and accompanying story, which describes how the daughter of Glencoe ran away with her father's piper Henderson to America. It also notes that 'She never did did (sic) good - always going round the shore to look out for her lover coming'.
Dates:
1883
Story about a dispute over a march at Meall a Bhogaire, 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/167
Scope and Contents
Story probably collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, about a dispute over a march at Meall a Bhogaire between the Stewarts and Glencoe, in which a MacFhraing [Rankin] is shot by a Stewart through a cleft in the rock and the Glencoe men fled and never came back. The rock is known as 'Clach Mhic Fhraing'.
Dates:
1883