MacNeil (of Barra)
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Found in 6 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
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 15 July 1870 to 19 October 1871
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, inscribed on the inside cover with 'Alexander A Carmichael Inland Revenue Lochmaddy N[orth] Uist 15/7 1870 Note Book No 8'. The majority of this notebook contains material collected on Tarasaigh/Taransay from the MacDonalds at Paible House, Mor or Marion MacQueen and Donald MacKinnon including notes on the island's archaeology, local history and geographical changes, with stories of how coastal erosion revealed burial sites and renditions of...
Dates:
15 July 1870 to 19 October 1871
Story about Caibeal Bharra, September 1872
Item
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
Story about Calum Cille [St Columba] and his travels around the islands of Scotland and Blàr na Cuigeal, September 1872
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/131
Scope and Contents
Story about Calum Cille [St Columba] and his travels around the islands of Scotland probably collected from James Campbell, fisherman, Ceanntangabhal/Kentangval, Barraigh/Isle of Barra. The story notes that the castle on Loch Tangasdail was built by St Clair [Dùn Mhic Leòid, Loch Tangasdale, Barraigh/Isle of Barra], that St Clair married a woman from Kintail [Ceann Tàile, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] and that he had eight hundred men who fought for him, although none of the men were from...
Dates:
September 1872
Story about Pearsan Mòr, 24 September 1872
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/111
Scope and Contents
Story about Pearsan Mòr, chaplain and son to MacNeil of Barra, who lived at Ciolla [Chiall, Barraigh/Isle of Barra] that his wife, concerned that he might be interested in a woman who lived at Cliat [Cliaid], arranged for him to be ambushed by the other woman's servants on his return from hunting on Àird Ghrèin at Ciste nan Cli'eann. Pearsan Mòr killed ten of the twelve men although two of them lived until the morning. He fought them until he fell at Meallach where he was buried and a chapel...
Dates:
24 September 1872
Two stories relating to Cladh-Mhoire Nunton, 20 January 1871
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/149
Scope and Contents
Two stories collected from Hector MacLeod, aged 85, at Caisteal Bhuirgh/Borve Castle, Lionacleit/Linaclate, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula telling how Cladh-Mhoire Nunton [Baile nan Cailleach] had a roof which was burned the same night as all other church roofs were burnt in Scotland for reasons which remain a mystery. 'No such secret as this was ever Kept. Nothing is know[n] of it.' The first person to be buried there was Bard dugh mhic Neill Bharrai [Bàrd Dubh Mhic Neill Bharraigh] who fell...
Dates:
20 January 1871
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- Cemeteries 4
- Death 4
- Family 4
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 3
- Voyages and Travel 3
- Archaeology 2
- Biography 2
- Cairinis North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Caisteal Bhuirgh Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Customs 2
- Disputes 2
- Fairies 2
- Family History 2
- Food 2
- Geography 2
- Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 2
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Laments 2
- Landowners 2
- Language 2
- Liniclate Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Malaclete North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Marriage 2
- Murder 2
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Nunton Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Placenames 2
- Saints 2
- Sayings 2
- Songs 2
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Vocabulary 2
- Ambushes and surprises 1
- An Cnoc Stornoway (parish) Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Birds 1
- Carrickfergus County Antrim Northern Ireland 1
- Cattle 1
- Chiall Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Cill Choinnich Tiree Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Cille Bharra Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Ciste nan Cli'eann Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Cladach Chirceboist North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Cladh Mhoire Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Cliaid Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Coasts 1
- Creagorry Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Drowning 1
- Eoligarry Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Fires 1
- Fishing 1
- Funeral Rites and Ceremonies 1
- Gearraidh Iain North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Genealogy 1
- Geology 1
- Gleann Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Houses 1
- Iona Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Ireland 1
- Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Kentangaval Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Kintail Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Lionacuidhe South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Loch Tangasdail Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Losgaintir Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Love 1
- Lullabies 1
- Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Names 1
- Nisishee Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Ormacleit South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Pabbay Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Paibeil Taransay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Plants 1
- Poems 1
- Poets, Scottish 1
- Protection 1
- Roads, Design and Construction 1
- Rocks 1
- Scarasta Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Seathain | mac Rìgh Èirinn 1
- South Uist Howmore Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Staoinebrig South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Stones 1
- Taobh Tuath Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Taransay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Teampull na Trionaid North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Tiree Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Udal North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Uidh Taransay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Vatersay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- War 1
- Warriors 1
- Waulking songs 1
- Wells 1 + ∧ less
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