Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille)
Person
Found in 5 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, 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 belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 14 November 1873 to 10 April 1875
Series
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
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
Notes and story about Naomh Moire [Maol-ruibhe], Naomh Brian[ain] and associated archaeological sites, 1867
Item
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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- Poems 4
- Songs 4
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- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 3
- Biography 3
- Cemeteries 3
- Church Buildings 3
- Family History 3
- Geography 3
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 3
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 3
- Sayings 3
- Wells 3
- Creagorry Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Edinburgh -- Scotland 2
- Fishing 2
- Islay Argyllshire Scotland 2
- Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Landowners 2
- Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 2
- Love 2
- Rocks 2
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Stone crosses 2
- Trees 2
- Voyages and Travel 2
- Women 2
- Achadun Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Allt Aogain Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Anatomy 1
- Appin Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Architecture 1
- Baleshare North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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- Bernera Island Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Biological rhythms 1
- Birds 1
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- Bodha na Cille Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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- Clach na h-Ealaidh Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
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- Ireland 1
- Kilchiaran Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
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