Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille)
Person
Found in 4 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
Charm entitled 'Eolas Pronnai' and accompanying story, 3 February 1874
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/51
Scope and Contents
Charm entitled 'Eolas Pronnai' [Charm for a Bruise] collected from Ranald MacDonald, aged 81 years, Geàrraidh na Mònadh/Garrynamonie, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist, beginning 'An ora chuir Cal[um]-cille ris cois a ghille sa ghleann. Iocai[dh] an cnei[mhe] lium'. MacDonald states that he still uses the charm and that people who fall and are bruised but not cut come to him for the charm. The story he tells describes how when the road at Trossaridh [Trosaraidh] near Geàrraidh na Mònadh/Garrynamonie...
Dates:
3 February 1874
Charm entitled 'Ora Criongain', 3 February 1874
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/52
Scope and Contents
Charm entitled 'Ora Criongaini' [Charm for a Bruise] collected from Ranald MacDonald, aged 81 years, Geàrraidh na Mònadh/Garrynamonie, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist, beginning 'An ora chuir Calum-cille ris cois a ghille sa ghleann. Iocaidh an cnei[mhe] lium'. A note beside the title reads 'Ora Latin word'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
3 February 1874
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
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- Customs 3
- Archaeology 2
- Charms 2
- Geàrraidh na Mònadh South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Peat 2
- Roads, Design and Construction 2
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Trees 2
- Trosaraidh Boisdale (parish) South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Wells 2
- Appin Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Biography 1
- Bonawe Glenorchy and Inishail (parish) Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Cemeteries 1
- Cladh Churalain Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Crois Chaluim Chille Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Edinburgh -- Scotland 1
- Family History 1
- Fires 1
- Food 1
- Geography 1
- Glencreran Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Invernahyle Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Iona Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Landowners 1
- Language 1
- Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Love 1
- Oban Kilmore and Kilbride (parish) Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Placenames 1
- Poems 1
- Prayers 1
- Rocks 1
- Sayings 1
- Sgeir a' Phobuil Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Songs 1
- Stone crosses 1
- Stone fonts 1
- Stones 1
- Superstition 1
- Tobar Chaluim Chille Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Tobar Churalain Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Vocabulary 1
- War 1
- Women 1 + ∧ less
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