Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille)
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1901
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW110
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. Inscribed on the inside front cover is 'Alexander Carmichael, 32 Polworth Gardens, Edinburgh, 11/4 1901' [11 April 1901]. The text is written in both pen and pencil and all of it has been scored through, as if to indicate it has been transcribed elsewhere. The notebook contains vocabulary collected from travelling people, stories about St Columba, proverbs, hymns, stories about prophecy, some notes on birds and otters and cures. The majority...
Dates:
1901
Story about Calum Cille [St Columba] and his travels around the islands of Scotland and Blàr na Cuigeal, September 1872
Item
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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- Carrickfergus County Antrim Northern Ireland 1
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- Cill Choinnich Tiree Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Cures 1
- Disputes 1
- Family 1
- Fishing 1
- Food 1
- Glen Spean Kilmonivaig Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Hymns 1
- Iona Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Ireland 1
- Kentangaval Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Kintail Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Language 1
- Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Loch Tangasdail Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Pabbay Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Placenames 1
- Poems 1
- Prayers 1
- Prophecy 1
- Proverbs 1
- Saints 1
- Songs 1
- Tiree Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Vatersay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Vocabulary 1
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