Skip to main content

MacDonald (of Clanranald)

 Family

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. Written on the inside front cover is '2/9 1870. Oban' and on the flyleaf is '[deleted: Twas] Friday 2 Sep[tember]. 1870. 12 noon from Ob[an]'. Folios 1-3r and 75r to 117v are blank. The text on folio 3v and 4r and 4v is written updside down and is later text (29 January 1875). The contents are in two distinct sections, the first being material collected on Lios Mòr/Lismore and the second being material collected in South Uist. Much of the...
Dates: 2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875

Story about Fenians and accompanying notes from the informant about story-telling, 24 April 1866

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW104/28
Scope and Contents Story about Art, a Fenian warrior, collected from Eachann Maciosaig [Hector MacIsaac], Iocar [Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist], who heard it from Ruari Rua [Roderick MacQuien, catechist] and accompanying notes from the informant about story-telling. Hector begins with the sloinneadh [patronymic] of Caramag mac Art. The story then relates how Art married Nighean Rìgh Lochlann but cheated on her. Rìgh Lochlann was very angry so he banished Art overseas. He went travelling...
Dates: 24 April 1866

Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1864-1869

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW104
Scope and Contents Transciption notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. The inside front cover is inscribed in ink with 'Bought at Wadebridge Cornwall Dec[ember] 1 1864 p 1/6 A A Carmichael' and the opposite page has 'A A Carmichael' written on it in pencil. The notebook contains Fenian songs or tales mainly collected in Uibhist a Deas/South Uist and Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula, some of which are repeated in full or in part. These include 'Laoidh na Muileartaich', 'Duan an Deirg' and 'A' Bhraoin Chaorain'....
Dates: 1864-1869

Filtered By

  • Subject: Fenians X

Additional filters:

Subject
Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 2
Blacksmiths 2
Fenian cycle 2
Ireland 2
Language 2
∨ more
Love 2
Magic 2
North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
Placenames 2
Poems 2
Righ Lochan 2
Songs 2
Trees 2
Voyages and Travel 2
Warriors 2
Women 2
Achadun Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
Allt Aogain Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
Archaeology 1
Architecture 1
Argyllshire Scotland 1
Bernera Island Argyllshire Scotland 1
Beverages 1
Borve Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Bulls 1
Castle Coeffin Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
Castles 1
Catechists 1
Cemeteries 1
Children 1
Church Buildings 1
Clach na h-Ealaidh Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
Clachan Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
Contests 1
Creagorry Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Cuchulain 1
Cures 1
Customs 1
Death 1
Diarmaid 1
Dogs 1
Fairies 1
Family History 1
Fiart Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
Fionn MacCumhail 1
Fishers 1
Geography 1
Germany 1
Gravestones 1
Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Italy 1
Kings and rulers 1
Landowners 1
Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
Norway 1
Oscar 1
Port a' Charrain Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
Punishment 1
Rocks 1
Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
Rìgh Èirinn 1
Scotland 1
Sheriffmuir, Battle of | Scotland | 1715 1
Spain 1
St Moluag's Cathedral Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
Stilligarry South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Stirlingshire Scotland 1
Stone crosses 1
Stones 1
Storytelling 1
Suidheachan Fhinn Gairloch (parish) Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
Tigharry North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Tools 1
Uisgebhagh Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Ulster cycle 1
Vikings 1
Vocabulary 1
Wells 1
+ ∧ less