MacNeil (of Barra)
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Found in 3 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
Story about Coinneach Odhar [The Brahan Seer], 3 January 1872
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/9
Scope and Contents
Story collected at Gramsdall [Gramasdail/Gramsdale, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula] about Coinneach Odhar [The Brahan Seer] telling how following a dream he had, he got his powers of prophesy from a stone in a box he had found on the strand. Later he threw the stone into a loch near Loch Ness and it was said that when the stone is recovered all his prophesies will come true. The story also lists several of Coinneach Odhar's prophesies relating to Uist and Barra including the presence of grey...
Dates:
3 January 1872
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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- Bual na Creige Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Coastal Landforms 2
- Geography 2
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Placenames 2
- Voyages and Travel 2
- Am Blai Lin Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Am Bo Carrach Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- An Aonaig Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Archaeology 1
- Arnamul Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Birds 1
- Castles 1
- Cemeteries 1
- Cladach a' Chaolais North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Cladh Neart Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Clans (Scotland) 1
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- Customs 1
- Drowning 1
- Emblems 1
- Fala Mhuilt Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Fishing 1
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- Geology 1
- Glaic nam Basdairean Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Gold 1
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- Gunamul Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Kisimul Castle Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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- Leac Ia'un Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Leac Shleite Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Loch Ness Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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- Mingulay Scotland Scotland 1
- Na Gilleachan Ruadh Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Ores 1
- Poems 1
- Prophecy 1
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- Ru Eoiridh Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Rubha Liath Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Sea faring 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
- Solon Beag Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- St Kilda Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Susabeist [Mingulay] Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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