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

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Story about fishing on Ìle/Islay and Calum Cille [St Columba], June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/49
Scope and Contents

Story about fishing on Ìle/Islay collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Baile Meadhanach/Ballymeanach, there that fishing would take place at Oin Hailigeo [Abhainn Shailigeo/Saligo River] or Loch Gruinart and that once a man caught a losgain [frog or toad] and gave it to Calum Cille [St Columba], who made a curse that every salmon would face out to sea and none would return. The story concludes that the lake used to be full of salmon.

Dates: June 1887

Story about why a village in Tiree never hears a cock crow, 1901

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/39
Scope and Contents

Story about a village in Tiree [Tiriodh, Earra-Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] which never hears a cock crow because Calum Cille [St Columba] thought he would pass through the place before the cock crowed but the cock crowed as he was passing through so he made a curse that a cock would never crow there again. According to the story a cock has never crowed there since. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1901

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