Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille)
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Custom about a blessing stone on Bernara an Easpuig, 8 August 1867
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/37
Scope and Contents
Custom collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay about a blessing stone on Bernara an Easpuig [Beàrnaraigh/Berneray] that it was in a stone font in the graveyard and that people who were afraid would go and stroke it. There is also a note about the bishop's house that it 'was up till late and the stone upon which he rested his book while read[ing] is there still.' The custom is preceded by a short saying 'Bean Chaluim Chille am Miulay. Bean Naomh Mòire am...
Dates:
8 August 1867
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. Written on the inside front cover is '2/9 1870. Oban' and on the flyleaf is '[deleted: Twas] Friday 2 Sep[tember]. 1870. 12 noon from Ob[an]'. Folios 1-3r and 75r to 117v are blank. The text on folio 3v and 4r and 4v is written updside down and is later text (29 January 1875). The contents are in two distinct sections, the first being material collected on Lios Mòr/Lismore and the second being material collected in South Uist. Much of the...
Dates:
2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875
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
Story about stone crosses on Ìle/Islay, June 1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/96
Scope and Contents
Story collected on Ìle/Islay about stone crosses there, stating that the cross at Kilchoman [Cille Chòmain] was from Ireland [brought by] an Irish woman who was married to a landowner from Duir [Contae Dhoire/County Londonderry/County Derry]. Mr Iain Campbell, minister, 'threw down the cross' and the last priest in Islay was brought by a daughter of Clanranald who apparently marriedCampbell of Bailnaby [Baile Nàbaidh/Balnaby/Ballinaby]. When she died she was buried next to him as she had...
Dates:
June 1887
Story about the saints connected to Lios Mòr/Lismore, 2 September 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/2
Scope and Contents
Story collected from Duncan Carmichael on the boat from An t-Òban/Oban to Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire about the saints connected to Lismore, telling how Calumcille, Moaluag and Ordhean [Calum Cille/Columba, Moluag and Oran] were brothers who were competing for the possession of Lismore. Moluag won by cutting his finger off and throwing it to shore and consequently Calum Cille went to Iona. It also tells of Oran's burial alive and how on the fourth day after he'd been...
Dates:
2 September 1870
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- Argyllshire Scotland 4
- Landowners 3
- Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 3
- Placenames 3
- Archaeology 2
- Biography 2
- Customs 2
- Death 2
- Family History 2
- Geography 2
- Islay Argyllshire Scotland 2
- Language 2
- Love 2
- Oban Kilmore and Kilbride (parish) Argyllshire Scotland 2
- Poems 2
- Rocks 2
- Sayings 2
- Songs 2
- Stone crosses 2
- Vocabulary 2
- Wells 2
- Women 2
- Achadun Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Allt Aogain Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Appin Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Architecture 1
- Ballinaby Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Bernera Island Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Bishops 1
- Bonawe Glenorchy and Inishail (parish) Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Castle Coeffin Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Castles 1
- Catholics 1
- Children 1
- Church Buildings 1
- Clach na h-Ealaidh Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Clachan Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Cladh Churalain Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Contests 1
- County Londonderry Northern Ireland 1
- Creagorry Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Cures 1
- Edinburgh -- Scotland 1
- Fairies 1
- Family 1
- Fenians 1
- Fiart Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Fires 1
- Food 1
- Glencreran Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Gravestones 1
- Healing 1
- Invernahyle Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Iona Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Ireland 1
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Kilchoman Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Lecterns 1
- Lon Tuath Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint. 1
- Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Mutilation 1
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Port a' Charrain Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Prayers 1
- Punishment 1
- Saints 1
- Sgeir a' Phobuil Argyllshire Scotland 1
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- St Moluag's Cathedral Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Stilligarry South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Stone fonts 1
- Stones 1
- Superstition 1
- Tobar Churalain Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Tobar Haco Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
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