Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille)
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Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Custom about a blessing stone on Bernara an Easpuig, 8 August 1867
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/37
Scope and Contents
Custom collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay about a blessing stone on Bernara an Easpuig [Beàrnaraigh/Berneray] that it was in a stone font in the graveyard and that people who were afraid would go and stroke it. There is also a note about the bishop's house that it 'was up till late and the stone upon which he rested his book while read[ing] is there still.' The custom is preceded by a short saying 'Bean Chaluim Chille am Miulay. Bean Naomh Mòire am...
Dates:
8 August 1867
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 belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875
Series
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
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 14 November 1873 to 10 April 1875
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. Of the ninety-three folios in the notebook, only twenty-two have been used.
Dates:
14 November 1873 to 10 April 1875
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
Story about Calum Cille [St Columba] and his travels around the islands of Scotland and Blàr na Cuigeal, September 1872
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/131
Scope and Contents
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 churches built by Calum Cille [St Columba], 1901
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/48
Scope and Contents
Story about churches built by Calum Cille [St Columba] that when he first arrived in Scotland he built a church in Uist [Uibhist] but he could still see Ireland from there so he pulled it down. He then went to the Isle of Skye [An t-Eilean Sgitheanach] and built a church there but could not see Ireland from it. It was the same in Aoi [Ì Chaluim Chille/Iona, Earra Ghàidheal, Argyllshire], which were the only two places from which he coudl not see Ireland. Text has been scored out as if...
Dates:
1901
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- Archaeology 4
- Argyllshire Scotland 4
- Church Buildings 4
- Customs 4
- Language 4
- Placenames 4
- Poems 4
- Sayings 4
- Songs 4
- Vocabulary 4
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 3
- Biography 3
- Cemeteries 3
- Family History 3
- Geography 3
- Iona Argyllshire Scotland 3
- Ireland 3
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 3
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 3
- Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 3
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 3
- Voyages and Travel 3
- Creagorry Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Death 2
- Edinburgh -- Scotland 2
- Family 2
- Fishing 2
- Islay Argyllshire Scotland 2
- Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Landowners 2
- Love 2
- Rocks 2
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Trees 2
- War 2
- Wells 2
- Women 2
- Achadun Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Allt Aogain Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Anatomy 1
- Appin Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Architecture 1
- Baleshare North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Ballymeanach Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Bernera Island Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Biological rhythms 1
- Birds 1
- Birds of prey 1
- Birdsongs 1
- Bishops 1
- Bodha na Cille Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Bonawe Glenorchy and Inishail (parish) Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Carrickfergus County Antrim Northern Ireland 1
- Castle Coeffin Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Castles 1
- Cats 1
- Cattle 1
- Charms 1
- Children 1
- Cill Choinnich Tiree Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Clach na h-Ealaidh Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Clachan Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Cladh Churalain Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Contests 1
- Cures 1
- Disputes 1
- Eels 1
- Fairies 1
- Fenians 1
- Fiart Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Fires 1
- Fish 1
- Food 1
- Gairloch (parish) Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Geology 1
- Geàrraidh na Mònadh South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Glencreran Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Gravestones 1
- Griminish Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Healing 1
- Hunting 1
- Insects 1
- Invernahyle Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Kentangaval Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Kilchiaran Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Kintail Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Kintyre Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Lecterns 1
- Loch Tangasdail Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Lon Tuath Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint. 1
- Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Ministers (Clergy) 1
- Oban Kilmore and Kilbride (parish) Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Pabbay Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Pabbay Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Plants 1
- Port a' Charrain Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1 + ∧ less
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