MacNeil (of Barra)
Family
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Account of a fishing trip around Mingulay with accompanying place-name notes, descriptions and stories, 23 May 1869
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/31
Scope and Contents
Account by Alexander Carmichael of a fishing trip around Miulay [Miùghlaigh/Mingulay] with accompanying place-name notes, descriptions and stories. Carmichael notes geographical features such as high points, caves, rocks or arches; archaeological sites such as dùns or graveyards; places people have used for looking after livestock or catching birds and fish, noting breeding grounds or habits of some birds; and sea-faring items such as the conditions of the sea or navigation techniques. One...
Dates:
23 May 1869
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
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
Notes and story about the Lochlannaich [Vikings], 1867
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/71
Scope and Contents
Notes and story about the Lochlannaich [Vikings] probably collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay telling how they lived on Fuda [Fuidheigh/Fuday] and were killed there by Mac an Amhrais, an illegitimate son of MacNeil of Barra to prove, at MacNeil's request, that he was his son. The informant states, 'The Lochlannaich at one time owned all these islands,' and had a king called Barp 'who was the embodi[ment] of al that was fierce cruel and murderous'. When he...
Dates:
1867
Place-name story for Sloc na Beiste, 1867
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/44
Scope and Contents
Place-name story for Sloc na Beiste [Sloc na Bèiste, Beàrnaraigh/Berneray] probably collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay, telling how when Berneray was uninhabited, the crew of a boat came ashore for water but left behind a young man called MacGillecharra who had fallen asleep. Finding himself he went to Ciosamul [Kisimul Castle, Barraigh/Isle of Barra] and met MacNeil of Barra's wife who happened to be a MacLean and of the same kin. She gave him a wife and...
Dates:
1867
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
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- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 5
- Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 4
- Cemeteries 4
- Geography 4
- Archaeology 3
- Birds 3
- Fortifications 3
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 3
- Kisimul Castle Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 3
- Language 3
- Vocabulary 3
- Voyages and Travel 3
- Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Biography 2
- Bual na Creige Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Coastal Landforms 2
- Customs 2
- Drowning 2
- Fishing 2
- Geology 2
- Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 2
- Landowners 2
- Love 2
- Marriage 2
- Poems 2
- Sheep 2
- Songs 2
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Warriors 2
- Aird Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Am Blai Lin Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Am Bo Carrach Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- An Aonaig Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- An Cnoc Stornoway (parish) Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Arnamul Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Baile na Creige Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Cairinis North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Castles 1
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- Cladh Neart Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Clans (Scotland) 1
- Coire Fhiarail Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Creagorry Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Death 1
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- Disguise 1
- Dogs 1
- Dwellings 1
- Emblems 1
- Etymology 1
- Fairies 1
- Fala Mhuilt Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Family 1
- Family History 1
- Fenian cycle 1
- Fenians 1
- Fionn MacCumhail 1
- Food 1
- Fuday Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Funeral Rites and Ceremonies 1
- Gearraidh Iain North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Glaic nam Basdairean Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Gleann Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Gold 1
- Gunamul Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Heabhal Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- King of Norway | Rìgh Lochlainn 1
- Laments 1
- Leac Ia'un Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Leac Shleite Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Lionacuidhe South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Lullabies 1
- Malaclete North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Mingulay Scotland Scotland 1
- Monsters 1
- Na Gilleachan Ruadh Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Ores 1
- Ormacleit South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Pabbay Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Plants 1
- Praise 1
- Protection 1
- Proverbs 1
- Ru Eoiridh Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Rubha Liath Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Saints 1
- Sanndraigh Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Sayings 1
- Sea faring 1
- Seathain | mac Rìgh Èirinn 1
- Sithein a' Bhealaich South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Sleat (parish) Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Sloc Chaisigeo Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Sloc Chremisgeo Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Sloc na h-Aoineig Mingulay Inverenss-shire Scotland 1 + ∧ less
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