MacDonald (of Sleat)
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Found in 4 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
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
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1864-1869
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW107
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing an essay entitled 'Bards and Bardism of the Highlands'; some notes on archaeology in Barra [Barraigh], Vatersay [Bhatarsaigh] and Sandray [Sanndraigh]; Fenian songs and poems; songs and poems relating to the MacDonalds; and a story entitled 'Prince Charlie's Pipe' mostly collected from South Uist [Uibhist a Deas] and Benbecula [Beinn na Faoghla].
Dates:
1864-1869
Poem beginning 'Gao an iar thar na Feiste' and accompanying note, June 1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/179
Scope and Contents
Poem beginning 'Gao an iar thar na Feiste, Ceo is uisge' which is described as having been composed by Màiri Nighean Alasdair Ruaidh to the MacDonalds after a meeting at Rodail [Roghadal/Rodel, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] at which the MacLeods and MacDonalds quarrelled. A vocabulary note reads 'Foirich = Pestle'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
June 1887
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- Biography 3
- Cemeteries 3
- Church Buildings 3
- Customs 3
- Fairies 3
- Family 3
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 3
- Songs 3
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 3
- Tales 3
- Archaeology 2
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Creagorry Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Death 2
- Family History 2
- Geography 2
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Laments 2
- Landowners 2
- Love 2
- Placenames 2
- Voyages and Travel 2
- Waulking songs 2
- Achadun Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Allt Aogain Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- An Cnoc Stornoway (parish) Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Architecture 1
- Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Baleshare North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Bernera Island Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Birds 1
- Cairinis North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Castle Coeffin Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Castles 1
- Children 1
- Clach na h-Ealaidh Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Clachan Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Contests 1
- Cures 1
- Disputes 1
- Drowning 1
- Fenian cycle 1
- Fenians 1
- Fiart Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Fishing 1
- Food 1
- Fortune 1
- Gearraidh Iain North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Gleann Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Gravestones 1
- Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Lionacuidhe South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Loss (of people or things) 1
- Lullabies 1
- Malaclete North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Marriage 1
- Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Neist Duirinish Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Ormacleit South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Plants 1
- Port a' Charrain Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Protection 1
- Punishment 1
- Rocks 1
- Rodel Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Saints 1
- Saints days 1
- Sayings 1
- Sea faring 1
- Seathain | mac Rìgh Èirinn 1
- Sniseabhal South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- South Uist Howmore Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- St Moluag's Cathedral Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Stilligarry South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Stone crosses 1
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- Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Vatersay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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