MacNeil (of Barra)
Family
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1864 to
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, noted as being 'Bought at St Columb, Cornwall, 30 Nov[ember] 1864 pr[ice] 2/3'. The back inside cover contains a note probably collected as part of excise duties which reads 'Rod[erick] MacPhie Mast of boat 21.8 [-] 1.2½ [-]'. The notebook contains one insertion. The majority of the notebook contains lore relating to Miùlaigh/Mingulay mostly collected from Roderick MacNeil, crofter, aged 88, known as Ruairidh an Rùma. Roderick MacNeil also...
Dates:
1864 to
Two stories about Ruary an tartair [Roderick MacNeil] and accompanying notes about Barraigh/Isle of Barra], 1867
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/25
Scope and Contents
Two stories about Ruary an tartair [Ruairidh an Tartair or Roderick MacNeil], the first being that when he had dinner he would send a servant to the top of He-eveall [Sheabhal/Heabhal, Barraigh/Isle of Barra] with a trumpet to proclaim as such, noting that 'Biola-creag was the badge on MacNeils livery' [Bual na Creige/Biulacraig, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay] and that it is the 'third if not the second highest [cliff] in Britain'. The second story tells how he went to challenge Rob Roy [MacGregor]...
Dates:
1867
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Aird Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Archaeology 1
- Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Biography 1
- Birds 1
- Bual na Creige Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Castles 1
- Cemeteries 1
- Clans (Scotland) 1
- Coastal Landforms 1
- Customs 1
- Dogs 1
- Dwellings 1
- Emblems 1
- Fenian cycle 1
- Fenians 1
- Fionn MacCumhail 1
- Fortifications 1
- Geology 1
- Gold 1
- Heabhal Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Language 1
- Marriage 1
- Ores 1
- Pabbay Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Poems 1
- Praise 1
- Proverbs 1
- Sanndraigh Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Sheep 1
- Songs 1
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Stones 1
- Tolstadh Bho Thuath Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Vatersay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Vocabulary 1
- Voyages and Travel 1
- Warriors 1 + ∧ less
∨ more