Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille)
Person
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 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 churches built by Calum Cille [St Columba], 1901
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/48
Scope and Contents
Story about churches built by Calum Cille [St Columba] that when he first arrived in Scotland he built a church in Uist [Uibhist] but he could still see Ireland from there so he pulled it down. He then went to the Isle of Skye [An t-Eilean Sgitheanach] and built a church there but could not see Ireland from it. It was the same in Aoi [Ì Chaluim Chille/Iona, Earra Ghàidheal, Argyllshire], which were the only two places from which he coudl not see Ireland. Text has been scored out as if...
Dates:
1901
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- Archaeology 2
- Argyllshire Scotland 2
- Customs 2
- Edinburgh -- Scotland 2
- Iona Argyllshire Scotland 2
- Ireland 2
- Islay Argyllshire Scotland 2
- Language 2
- Placenames 2
- Poems 2
- Sayings 2
- Songs 2
- Vocabulary 2
- Anatomy 1
- Appin Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Ballymeanach Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Biography 1
- Biological rhythms 1
- Birds 1
- Birds of prey 1
- Birdsongs 1
- Bonawe Glenorchy and Inishail (parish) Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Cats 1
- Cemeteries 1
- Church Buildings 1
- Cladh Churalain Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Eels 1
- Family History 1
- Fires 1
- Fish 1
- Fishing 1
- Food 1
- Gairloch (parish) Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Geography 1
- Glencreran Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Healing 1
- Hunting 1
- Insects 1
- Invernahyle Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Kilchiaran Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Kintyre Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Landowners 1
- Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Love 1
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Oban Kilmore and Kilbride (parish) Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Plants 1
- Portnahaven Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Prayers 1
- Proverbs 1
- Rocks 1
- Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Sea birds 1
- Sgeir a' Phobuil Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Shellfish 1
- St Kilda Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Superstition 1
- Tobar Churalain Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Voyages and Travel 1
- War 1
- Weather 1
- Wells 1
- Women 1 + ∧ less
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