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Story about Caibeal Bharra, September 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/159
Scope and Contents

Story about Caibeal Bharra [Cille-Bharra, Barraigh/Isle of Barra] that its stones were used by Colonel [Roderick] MacNeil to build roads and dykes in Eoligarry [Eòlaigearraidh], on the advice of a mason named [Peter] Dawson, and that the colonel never prospered after that. Carmichael describes the chapel as having been 'high & large. Full of skulls & bones taken up fr[om] the graves'. The story has been scored through lightly in pencil.

Dates: September 1872

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  • Subject: Church Buildings X
  • Subject: Eoligarry Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland X