Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille)
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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
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- Archaeology 1
- Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Barra Head Lighthouse Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Borve Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Church Buildings 1
- Cladh Bhrianain Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Customs 1
- Death 1
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Landowners 1
- Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Manual work 1
- Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Mutilation 1
- Oban Kilmore and Kilbride (parish) Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Placenames 1
- Saints days 1
- Stone carving 1
- Stone crosses 1
- Tobar Chaluim Chille Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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