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Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille)

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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Archaeological notes about Crois an t-Suidheachain, Leapaidh Chaluim Chille and Taigh Coimhidich/Garradh cail na Guaile, 1867

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/52
Scope and Contents Archaeological notes about Crois an t-Suidheachain, Leapaidh Chaluim Chille and Taigh Coimhidich/Garradh cail na Guaile, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay including dimensions and locations of the stones with a small diagram of the arrangment of the Leapaidh Chaluim Cille. Carmichael also mentions Leaba Treoireidh and Leaba MhicNeil on the side of Beinn ic a Phie [Cnoc Cnoc-a-Phì]. He notes stones that are on the south of the island facing Beàrnaraigh/Berneray adding that 'Along the whole side of this...
Dates: 1867

Archaeological notes on Crois-Ch-Chille [Crois Chaluim Chille] and Tobar C-Chille [Tobar Chaluim Chille], 1867

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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

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. Written on the inside front cover is '2/9 1870. Oban' and on the flyleaf is '[deleted: Twas] Friday 2 Sep[tember]. 1870. 12 noon from Ob[an]'. Folios 1-3r and 75r to 117v are blank. The text on folio 3v and 4r and 4v is written updside down and is later text (29 January 1875). The contents are in two distinct sections, the first being material collected on Lios Mòr/Lismore and the second being material collected in South Uist. Much of the...
Dates: 2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875

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

Place-name note for Crois-an-t suidheachain and Leapanan Chaluim Chille, 8 August 1867

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/39
Scope and Contents

Place-name note probably collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay for which reads 'Crois-an-t suidheachain. A place the priests had for perform[ing] div[ine] worship. Leapanan Chaluim Chille is close at hand.' Carmichael adds a reminder to 'See cross at Dunganich' [Dùn Gainmhich/Dunganichy Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula].

Dates: 8 August 1867

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Stones 4
Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 3
Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 3
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Wells 3
Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 2
Cemeteries 2
Church Buildings 2
Crois an t-Suidheachain Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 2
Customs 2
Leapanan Chaluim Chille Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 2
Achadun Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
Allt Aogain Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
Architecture 1
Argyllshire Scotland 1
Barra Head Lighthouse Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Bernera Island Argyllshire Scotland 1
Biography 1
Borve Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Castle Coeffin Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
Castles 1
Children 1
Clach na h-Ealaidh Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
Clachan Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
Cladh Bhrianain Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Contests 1
Creagorry Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Crois Chaluim Chille Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Cures 1
Death 1
Druinnich 1
Fairies 1
Family 1
Family History 1
Fenians 1
Fiart Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
Garadh Cail na Guaile Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Geography 1
Gravestones 1
Healing 1
Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Landowners 1
Language 1
Leaba Mhic Neill Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Leaba Treoiridh Mingulay Scotland Scotland 1
Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
Love 1
Manual work 1
North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Picts 1
Poems 1
Port a' Charrain Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
Priests 1
Punishment 1
Rocks 1
Saints 1
Saints days 1
Songs 1
South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
St Moluag's Cathedral Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
Stilligarry South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Stone carving 1
Stone fonts 1
Tobar Chaluim Chille Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Tobar Chaluim Chille Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Tools 1
Trees 1
Vocabulary 1
Voyages and Travel 1
Women 1
Worship 1
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