MacDonald (of Boisdale | South Uist)
Family
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 14 November 1873 to 10 April 1875
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. Of the ninety-three folios in the notebook, only twenty-two have been used.
Dates:
14 November 1873 to 10 April 1875
Song entitled 'Laoi Alast Dhuinn' and accompanying notes, 28 October 1872
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/95
Scope and Contents
Song entitled 'Laoi Alast Dhuinn' [Laoidh Alasdair Dhuinn] collected from Arch[ibald] Currie, aged forty-six years, Airdnamona Ioca[r] [Àird na Monadh, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] beginning 'Duisg a cholan as do chadal, S fhada n oiche noc gu suan duit'. The song is composed of eighty-six lines. The accompanying notes tell how Alasdair Donn was a Boisdale MacDonald [Baghasdal], who lived about five hundred years before and who was dead for twenty-four hourse, then rose, sang the song and then...
Dates:
28 October 1872
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Archaeology 1
- Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Baleshare North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Biography 1
- Bodha na Cille Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Boisdale South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Cattle 1
- Charms 1
- Church Buildings 1
- Customs 1
- Death 1
- Drimsdale South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Family History 1
- Fishing 1
- Geography 1
- Geology 1
- Geàrraidh na Mònadh South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Griminish Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Language 1
- Ministers (Clergy) 1
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Pabbay Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Placenames 1
- Poems 1
- Sayings 1
- Scarasta Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- South Uist Howmore Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Staoinebrig South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Trees 1
- Underwater archaeology 1
- Vocabulary 1 + ∧ less
∨ more