MacDonald (of Sleat)
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Archaeological notes on Loch Sgadavagh Isle and accompanying sketch, c1869
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/69
Scope and Contents
Archaeological notes on Loch Sgadavagh Isle [Loch Sgadabhagh, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] including a sketch plan of the ruins there with their dimensions, noting that there is a place for the boat at the door an destimating the age [of ruins] to be two or three hundred years old. Carmichael states that the loch is named after the island of Scadabhagh which is 'low, green & flat' and notes that thick heather or eilteach grows there. He adds that there is a pillar about five feet high at...
Dates:
c1869
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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- Airigh na Gaoithe North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Airigh nan Seilicheag North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- An Cnoc Stornoway (parish) Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Archaeology 1
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Biography 1
- Birds 1
- Cairinis North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Cemeteries 1
- Church Buildings 1
- Creagorry Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Cromlechs 1
- Customs 1
- Death 1
- Drowning 1
- Exports 1
- Fairies 1
- Family 1
- Family History 1
- Fishing 1
- Food 1
- Gearraidh Iain North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 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
- Loch Sgadabhagh North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Love 1
- Lullabies 1
- Malaclete North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Marriage 1
- Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- North Uist (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Ormacleit South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Poems 1
- Protection 1
- Saints 1
- Sayings 1
- Seathain | mac Rìgh Èirinn 1
- Songs 1
- South Uist Howmore Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Standing stones 1
- Stones 1
- Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Vocabulary 1
- Voyages and Travel 1
- Warriors 1
- Waulking songs 1 + ∧ less
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