MacDonald (of Clanranald)
Family
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Notes on the family of Uistean Mor Mac Onail, 14 July 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/102
Scope and Contents
Notes on the family of Uistean Mor Mac Onail [Uisdean Mòr MacDonald] probably collected from Margaret MacDonald, Malacleit/Malaclete, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist listing his illegitimate children and their mothers and noting the burial place of one of them.
Dates:
14 July 1870
Song entitled 'Is Ann A Ghabh Mi Mo Chead' and accompanying note, 23 March 1871
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/14
Scope and Contents
Song entitled 'Is Ann A Ghabh Mi Mo Chead' collected from Catrina Pearson [Catherine Pearson or MacPherson] pauper, Ceanntangbhal, Barrai [Ceanntangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Barra] beginning ''S ann a ghabh mi mo chead dhiot, A cheist nam fear oga'. The song has seven verses. The accompanying note states that the song was composed by the daughter of Donald son of MacNeil of Barra to James MacDonald of Clanranald, who got Boisdale [Baghasdal, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] after the MacNeils...
Dates:
23 March 1871
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
Story about inheriting [Castle] Beagram, c1872
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/84
Scope and Contents
Story about inheriting Beagram [Caisteal Bheagram/Castle Beagram, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] in which the clan chief gives his son his inheritance of the castle but keeps part of it [possibly Beinn na Faoghla] for himself. During a particularly harsh winter he goes to his son and asks for some bread but his son fights with him and he has to go and get the deeds. He dies on the journey back, so the son goes to get them, but he too dies. 'There began the war bet[ween] Iain Mòr Muideart[ach]...
Dates:
c1872
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
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- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 14
- Tales 13
- Family History 11
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 10
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 9
- Language 9
- Songs 9
- Family 8
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 8
- Vocabulary 8
- Fairies 6
- Love 6
- Poems 6
- Archaeology 5
- Cemeteries 5
- Church Buildings 5
- Customs 5
- Death 5
- Placenames 5
- Voyages and Travel 5
- Birds 4
- Fenian cycle 4
- Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 4
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 4
- Landowners 4
- Malaclete North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 4
- Sayings 4
- Cattle 3
- Charms 3
- Fenians 3
- Geography 3
- Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 3
- Laments 3
- Loss (of people or things) 3
- Magic 3
- Ormacleit South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 3
- Protection 3
- Trees 3
- Warriors 3
- Argyllshire Scotland 2
- Blacksmiths 2
- Cairinis North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Caisteal Bheagram South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Creagorry Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Drowning 2
- Fishing 2
- Food 2
- Genealogy 2
- Inheritance and Succession 2
- Ireland 2
- Kentangaval Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Kilpheder South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Marriage 2
- Names 2
- Plants 2
- Righ Lochan 2
- Rocks 2
- Staoinebrig South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Stilligarry South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Stone crosses 2
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- Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Waulking songs 2
- Wells 2
- Women 2
- Achadun Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Airigh-mhuilinn South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Allt Aogain Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- American War of Independence | 1775-1783 1
- An Cnoc Stornoway (parish) Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Animals 1
- Architecture 1
- Bailfinlay Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Baleshare North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Balivanich Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Bernera Island Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Beverages 1
- Blessings 1
- Bohuntine Kilmonivaig (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Boisdale South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Borve Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Bragar Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Bulls 1
- Caisteal Bhuirgh Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Castle Coeffin Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
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- Catechists 1
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- Clach na h-Ealaidh Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Clachan Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
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