MacIntosh (of Moy)

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1870 to 1872

Series

Identifier: Coll-97/CW90

Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing the stories 'Rocabarrai' and 'Cugarbhad'; some songs and song fragments; customs relating to religious festivals, particularly on the Isle of Barra; stories about the MacNeil of Barra; stories and archaeological notes on Castle Beagram [Caisteal Bheagram, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]; cattle charms and stories about the Lochlannaich [Vikings]. As well as archaeological notes on chapels and cemeteries the majority of the notebook...

Dates: 1870 to 1872

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Fragment of a song titled 'MacKintosh Lam[e]nt?', c1892

Item

Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/105

Scope and Contents

Fragment of a song titled 'MacKintosh Lam[e]nt?' [Cumha Mhic An Tòisich or Macintosh's Lament] which reads 'S truagh nach bu leis an t saeoghar mi, Bealach a gharadh'.

Dates: c1892

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Song entitled 'Cumha Mhic an Toisich', 25 September 1872 and 4 January 1876

Item

Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/126

Scope and Contents Song entitled 'Cumha Mhic an Toisich' [Cumha Mhic an Tòisich or MacIntosh's Lament] collected from Mor Nic Neil, daughter of Alexander MacNeil, Ceantang[abhal] [Marion MacNeil, Ceanntangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Isle of Barra] beginning ''S mise bhean mhul[adach] giulan a churaic'. The song is composed of sixty-five lines, mostly set out as four line stanzas. The text has been scored through in ink and a note written transversely across the first page of text reads 'Sent to the Highlander...

Dates: 25 September 1872 and 4 January 1876

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Song entitled 'Port Dho'null Mhoir 'ic Raoil Na Ceapaich' and accompanying story, 10 September 1885

Item

Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/33

Scope and Contents Song entitled 'Port Dho'null Mhoir 'ic Raoil Na Ceapaich' collected from Donald MacDonald, crofter, Griminish, Benbecula [Griminis, Beinn na Faoghla] beginning 'Marchaibh (Marsaibh?) gu h-eutrom, Togaibhidh air fraochaibh ri'. The accompanying story which tells how Donll [Domhnall] Mor Mac Raoil [Raghnaill] went to ask MacIntosh's daughter to marry him and he took twelve men with him. En route he met MacIntosh returning with a 'creach' [loot] which had been stolen from him so MacDonald...

Dates: 10 September 1885

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story about a lament [probably Cumha Mhic an Toisich], September 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/128

Scope and Contents

Story about a lament [probably Cumha Mhic an Tòisich] probably collected from Marion MacNeil, Ceanntangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Isle of Barra, telling how it was composed by a lady whose husband was killed on his return from being married. His death by a black horse had been predicted so he struck the black horse with his pistol and took a white horse instead but he was careless and his feet got tangled in the stirrups and he was dragged along the ground by the horse and was killed.

Dates: September 1872

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Verse beginning 'Theich O theich 's gun do theich Clann an toisich' and accompanying note, nd

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW152/20

Scope and Contents

Verse beginning 'Theich O theich 's gun do theich Clann an toisich' composed of four lines and an accompanying note which reads, 'The Macintoshes deserted the Lord of the Isles at the battle of [Inverlochy] and joined the King's people' [Battle of Inverlochy, 1431].

Dates: nd

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook of songs belonging to Alexander Carmichael

University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1870 to 1872

Fragment of a song titled 'MacKintosh Lam[e]nt?', c1892

Song entitled 'Cumha Mhic an Toisich', 25 September 1872 and 4 January 1876

Song entitled 'Port Dho'null Mhoir 'ic Raoil Na Ceapaich' and accompanying story, 10 September 1885

Story about a lament [probably Cumha Mhic an Toisich], September 1872

Verse beginning 'Theich O theich 's gun do theich Clann an toisich' and accompanying note, nd

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