MacMhuirich (hereditary bards of Clanranald)
Family
Found in 3 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 and transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1864-1867
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW113
Scope and Contents
Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing field and transcribed material. The notebook is inscribed on the front inside cover with the following: 'Scrap Book MS No1 Alex[ander] Carmichael (of Lismore) Inland Revenue Lochmaddy N[orth] Uist] 1864'. On the recto side of the fly leaf is written 'Angus MacDonald Staoinebrig tale teller' and on the verso side of the fly leaf is written 'Bought at Drew's Saint columb Cornwall this 17 day of Nov[ember] 1864 A. A. Carmichael p2/3'....
Dates:
1864-1867
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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- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Birds 2
- Death 2
- Family 2
- Family History 2
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Language 2
- Love 2
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Poems 2
- Songs 2
- Vocabulary 2
- Voyages and Travel 2
- An Cnoc Stornoway (parish) Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Cairinis North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Cemeteries 1
- Charms 1
- Church Buildings 1
- Comedy 1
- Creagorry Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Customs 1
- Drimsdale South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Drowning 1
- Fairies 1
- Fenian cycle 1
- Fishing 1
- Food 1
- Gearraidh Iain North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Geography 1
- Gleann Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Hogha Gearraidh North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Inheritance and Succession 1
- Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Laments 1
- Landowners 1
- Lionacuidhe South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Lullabies 1
- Magic 1
- Malaclete North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Manual work 1
- Marriage 1
- Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Monsters 1
- Ormacleit South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Placenames 1
- Plants 1
- Protection 1
- Saints 1
- Sayings 1
- Seathain | mac Rìgh Èirinn 1
- Shipwrecks 1
- South Uist Howmore Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- St Kilda Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Stilligarry South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Uisinis South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Veal 1
- Warriors 1
- Waulking songs 1 + ∧ less
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