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Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille)

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael probably while he lived at 31, Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, as this address is written in ink on the first folio. Written on the inside front cover but heavily scored is text which reads 'Mrs Malcolm MacLeod, [- Islay], widow of Mal[colm] MacLeod [Loch-]. The majority of the notebook contains material collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/ Islay relating folklore and natural history about the birds, fish, shellfish and animals found in and...
Dates: 1887

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 14 November 1873 to 10 April 1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111
Scope and Contents

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. Of the ninety-three folios in the notebook, only twenty-two have been used.

Dates: 14 November 1873 to 10 April 1875

Story about Calum Cille [St Columba] and his travels around the islands of Scotland and Blàr na Cuigeal, September 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/131
Scope and Contents Story about Calum Cille [St Columba] and his travels around the islands of Scotland probably collected from James Campbell, fisherman, Ceanntangabhal/Kentangval, Barraigh/Isle of Barra. The story notes that the castle on Loch Tangasdail was built by St Clair [Dùn Mhic Leòid, Loch Tangasdale, Barraigh/Isle of Barra], that St Clair married a woman from Kintail [Ceann Tàile, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] and that he had eight hundred men who fought for him, although none of the men were from...
Dates: September 1872

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Archaeology 2
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Vocabulary 2
Voyages and Travel 2
Anatomy 1
Baleshare North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Ballymeanach Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
Biography 1
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Bodha na Cille Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Carrickfergus County Antrim Northern Ireland 1
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Cill Choinnich Tiree Argyllshire Scotland 1
Creagorry Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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Gairloch (parish) Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
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Geàrraidh na Mònadh South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Griminish Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Hunting 1
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Iona Argyllshire Scotland 1
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Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Kentangaval Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Kilchiaran Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
Kintail Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
Kintyre Argyllshire Scotland 1
Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
Loch Tangasdail Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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Pabbay Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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Portnahaven Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
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Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
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Scarasta Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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South Uist Howmore Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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