Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille)
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Archaeological notes on Crois-Ch-Chille [Crois Chaluim Chille] and Tobar C-Chille [Tobar Chaluim Chille], 1867
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/54
Scope and Contents
Archaeological notes on Crois-Ch-Chille and Tobar C-Chille [Crois Chaluim Chille/Columba's Cross and Tobar Chaluim Chille/Columba's Well, Beàrnaraigh/Berneray], noting the height of the cross and the position of an altar next to it and a leab-a-chràidh [leabaidh c] composed of two stones one of which was where Calum Cille prayed and the other where he slept. He notes that this was when Calum Cille consecrated the burial place. Tobar Chaluim Chille is described as a font rather than a well as...
Dates:
1867
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1864 to
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, noted as being 'Bought at St Columb, Cornwall, 30 Nov[ember] 1864 pr[ice] 2/3'. The back inside cover contains a note probably collected as part of excise duties which reads 'Rod[erick] MacPhie Mast of boat 21.8 [-] 1.2½ [-]'. The notebook contains one insertion. The majority of the notebook contains lore relating to Miùlaigh/Mingulay mostly collected from Roderick MacNeil, crofter, aged 88, known as Ruairidh an Rùma. Roderick MacNeil also...
Dates:
1864 to
Notes and story about Naomh Moire [Maol-ruibhe], Naomh Brian[ain] and associated archaeological sites, 1867
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/74
Scope and Contents
Notes and story about Naomh Moire [Maol Rubha], Naomh Brian[ain] [Brendan] and associated archaeological sites probably collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay. The notes describe Tobar Chal[uim] Chille [St Columba's Well] as a muddy spring in a small gully east of the lighthouse [Barra Head, Beàrnaraigh/Berneray] and how St Maol Rubha's day was celebrated on Berneray 'as long as any of the old friamh had rel[atives] buried in the Cladh.' St Maol Rubha had a...
Dates:
1867
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- Cemeteries 2
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 2
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- Stone crosses 2
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- Aird Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Barra Head Lighthouse Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Biography 1
- Birds 1
- Borve Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Church Buildings 1
- Cladh Bhrianain Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Crois Chaluim Chille Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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- Dogs 1
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- Fenian cycle 1
- Fenians 1
- Fionn MacCumhail 1
- Fortifications 1
- Geography 1
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- Healing 1
- Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Kisimul Castle Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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- Manual work 1
- Marriage 1
- Pabbay Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Placenames 1
- Praise 1
- Proverbs 1
- Saints 1
- Saints days 1
- Sanndraigh Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Songs 1
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Stone carving 1
- Stone fonts 1
- Tobar Chaluim Chille Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Tobar Chaluim Chille Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Tolstadh Bho Thuath Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
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