MacMhuirich (hereditary bards of Clanranald)
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Family history and story about Clanvurich Staoligeary and accompanying verse, 29 October 1872
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/104
Scope and Contents
Family history and story about Clanvurich [Clann Mhuirich] Staoligeary [Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] probably collected from Angus Currie, pauper, Iocar [Ìochdar] describing the different lands held by different generations of the clan up until they lost Stadhlaigearraidh as the seventeenth generation to have lived there over three hundred and sixty years. The name of the last member of the clan to hold it was Niall mac Lachlain ioc Neill ioc Dhonil [Niall mac...
Dates:
29 October 1872
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, c1868 to 16 June 1876
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing primarily songs and stories collected in Miùghlaigh/Mingulay, Barraigh/Barra, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist and Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis. The main informants are Roderick MacNeil or Ruairidh an Rùma from Mingulay and Penelope MacLellan of Ormacleit/Ormaclete. The bulk of the material from MacNeil relates to the southernmost islands of the Hebrides and covers topics such as bird-fowling, the island way of life, place-names,...
Dates:
c1868 to 16 June 1876
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- An Cnoc Stornoway (parish) Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Birds 1
- Cairinis North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Cemeteries 1
- Church Buildings 1
- Creagorry Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Customs 1
- Death 1
- Drimsdale South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Drowning 1
- Fairies 1
- Family 1
- Fishing 1
- Food 1
- Gearraidh Iain North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Geography 1
- Gleann Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Laments 1
- Landowners 1
- Language 1
- Lionacuidhe South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Love 1
- Lullabies 1
- Malaclete North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Manual work 1
- Marriage 1
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- Monsters 1
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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- Seathain | mac Rìgh Èirinn 1
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- South Uist Howmore Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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- Uisinis South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Vocabulary 1
- Voyages and Travel 1
- Warriors 1
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