MacNeil (of Barra)

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Note about Tunga and native Barra people, 24 September 1972

Item

Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/97

Scope and Contents

Note about Tunga stating that it was built of masonry and that the MacNeils killed 'all the natives' [of Barraigh/Isle of Barra]. The last of these people was a man called Gillios who 'had the nature of the sitheachs & used to run into the holes like rabbits'.

Dates: 24 September 1972

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

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Subject: Murder X
Subject: Kentangaval Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland X

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MacNeil (of Barra)

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Note about Tunga and native Barra people, 24 September 1972

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