Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille)
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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
List of sayings about different saints' days, 20 November 1873
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/13
Scope and Contents
List of sayings about different saints days on which different manual tasks should be started or carried out such as ' Di daoine La Chal[uim-chille] chaoimh etc' [Diardaoin Latha Chaluim Chille chaoimh], La Bealtain light fires'.
Dates:
20 November 1873
Notes and story about Naomh Moire [Maol-ruibhe], Naomh Brian[ain] and associated archaeological sites, 1867
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/74
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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
Saying beginning 'Deir Columcille leinn (ruinn?)', c1875
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/130
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Saying beginning 'Deir Columcille leinn (ruinn?) Gu ifrionn gu brath nach rachadh an fial' possibly collected from 'old John Dillon' [Carmichael puts a question mark next to Dillon's name].
Dates:
c1875
Story about Calum Cille [St Columba] and his travels around the islands of Scotland and Blàr na Cuigeal, September 1872
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/131
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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
Story about the saints connected to Lios Mòr/Lismore, 2 September 1870
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/2
Scope and Contents
Story collected from Duncan Carmichael on the boat from An t-Òban/Oban to Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire about the saints connected to Lismore, telling how Calumcille, Moaluag and Ordhean [Calum Cille/Columba, Moluag and Oran] were brothers who were competing for the possession of Lismore. Moluag won by cutting his finger off and throwing it to shore and consequently Calum Cille went to Iona. It also tells of Oran's burial alive and how on the fourth day after he'd been...
Dates:
2 September 1870
Two versions of the charm beginning 'I will pull thee pregnant torranan' or 'I will pull thee torranan', February 1874
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/57
Scope and Contents
Two versions of the charm beginning 'I will pull thee pregnant torranan' or 'I will pull thee torranan' [Eòlas an Torranain or Charm of the Figwort]. Both versions have some words amended while the first five lines of the first version has been scored through in pencil as if deleted rather than transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
February 1874
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- Tales 3
- Cemeteries 2
- Church Buildings 2
- Customs 2
- Death 2
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 2
- Saints days 2
- Sayings 2
- Archaeology 1
- Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Barra Head Lighthouse Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Beltane 1
- Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Borve Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Carrickfergus County Antrim Northern Ireland 1
- Cattle 1
- Charms 1
- Cill Choinnich Tiree Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Cladh Bhrianain Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Disputes 1
- Family 1
- Fasts and Feasts 1
- Hell 1
- Iona Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Ireland 1
- Kentangaval Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Kintail Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Landowners 1
- Loch Tangasdail Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Manual work 1
- Milk Yield 1
- Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Mutilation 1
- Oban Kilmore and Kilbride (parish) Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Pabbay Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Placenames 1
- Stone carving 1
- Stone crosses 1
- Tiree Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Tobar Chaluim Chille Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Vatersay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Voyages and Travel 1
- War 1
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