MacNeil (of Barra)
Family
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
Story relating to Fuday, 24 September 1872
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/107
Scope and Contents
Story relating to Fuday [Fuideigh] in which the illegitimate son of MacNeil of Barra, Mac an Amhuris, avenges the abduction of his daughter by Lochlannaich [Vikings] by going to Fuday and killing them all. The remains of the Lochlannaich periodically washed up on shore. Two boys found gold on Fuday, which, after the death of their father, who had persuaded them to keep the gold, they used to buy property in Cape Breton, Canada following their emigration.
Dates:
24 September 1872
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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
- Biography 1
- Birds 1
- Cairinis North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Canada 1
- Cape Breton Island (Nova Scotia, Canada) 1
- Cemeteries 1
- Church Buildings 1
- Creagorry Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Customs 1
- Death 1
- Drowning 1
- Emigration and Immigration 1
- Fairies 1
- Family History 1
- Fishing 1
- Food 1
- Fuday Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Gearraidh Iain North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Geography 1
- Gleann Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Gold 1
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Kidnapping 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
- Marriage 1
- Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Murder 1
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Ormacleit South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Placenames 1
- Plants 1
- Poems 1
- Protection 1
- Revenge 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
- Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Vocabulary 1
- Voyages and Travel 1
- Warriors 1
- Waulking songs 1 + ∧ less
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