MacColl, Donald, 1793-1886 (foxhunter | Glencreran | Argyllshire)
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1883 to 1887
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing material collected mostly in An Apainn/Appin and Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire. A large proportion of the stories and biographical information about Appin was collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, who was known as Dòmhnall a' Bhrocair. Amongst the material collected from Dòmhnall a' Bhrocair are proverbs, sayings, customs, stories about local figures and families and historic anecdotes. The other main...
Dates:
1883 to 1887
Note about St Cyril's graveyard, 29 August 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/95
Scope and Contents
Note possibly collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, about St Cyril's graveyard [Cladh Churalain, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] and how the biers of the 'Eaglaish Shass[anach]' [English Church (Episcopal Church)] 'are smashed against an aged gnarled low cuilion holly tree after it carries up the dead' there, whereas presbyterian biers are covered with a cloth.
Dates:
29 August 1883
Note possibly about effigies at Tobar Chuiralain, 27 September 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/151
Scope and Contents
Note possibly about effigies at Tobar Chuiralain [Tobar Churalain, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire], collected from Donald MacColl, brocair (fox hunter), Glencreran, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, which reads 'Pins stuck in cork wood on Tobar Chur[alain], & rings'.
Dates:
27 September 1883
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- Cemeteries 2
- Cladh Churalain Argyllshire Scotland 2
- Tobar Churalain Argyllshire Scotland 2
- Wells 2
- Appin Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Archaeology 1
- Biography 1
- Bonawe Glenorchy and Inishail (parish) Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Edinburgh -- Scotland 1
- Family History 1
- Fires 1
- Food 1
- Funeral Rites and Ceremonies 1
- Geography 1
- Glencreran Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Healing 1
- Invernahyle Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Iona Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Landowners 1
- Language 1
- Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Love 1
- Oban Kilmore and Kilbride (parish) Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Placenames 1
- Poems 1
- Prayers 1
- Rocks 1
- Sayings 1
- Sgeir a' Phobuil Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Songs 1
- Superstition 1
- Tales 1
- Vocabulary 1
- War 1
- Women 1 + ∧ less
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