Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille)
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Found in 2 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, 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
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- Ballymeanach Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Beetles 1
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Biological rhythms 1
- Birds of prey 1
- Birdsongs 1
- Cats 1
- Cures 1
- Customs 1
- Death 1
- Edinburgh -- Scotland 1
- Eels 1
- Fish 1
- Food 1
- Gairloch (parish) Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Glen Spean Kilmonivaig Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Hunting 1
- Hymns 1
- Insects 1
- Ireland 1
- Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Kilchiaran Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Kintyre Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Plants 1
- Portnahaven Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Prayers 1
- Prophecy 1
- Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Sayings 1
- Sea birds 1
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