MacNeil (of Barra)
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Account of a fishing trip around Mingulay with accompanying place-name notes, descriptions and stories, 23 May 1869
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1864 to
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, c1868 to 16 June 1876
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 15 July 1870 to 19 October 1871
Notes and story about the Lochlannaich [Vikings], 1867
Notes on Tobar Bhi'it [Bridgit], Tobar Eachinn and Tota Chrissein, 1869
Notes on the wells Tobar Bhri'it [Bridgit], Sanntrai [Sanndraigh/Santray], Tobar Eachinn [Tobar Eachainn, Bhatarsaigh/Vatersay] and the graveyard Tota Chrissein at Cuir [Cuier/Cuidhir, Bhatarsaigh/Vatersay]. Tobar Eachainn is named after Eachin mac mhic ic Neil and noted as 'cover[ed] over with slats beyond Vatersay Ho[use]'. Tota Chrissein is noted as being used 'in Mr Alastair's time. He put his first child in it'.
Story about Caibeal Bharra, September 1872
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.
Two stories relating to Cladh-Mhoire Nunton, 20 January 1871
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