Cyril, Saint (Curalan)
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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
Notes on St Cyril and sites related to him in Appin, August 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/123
Scope and Contents
Notes on St Cyril and sites related to him in Appin [Apainn, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] including that St Cyril had a college; the Feinn [Fenians] had a dun on top of Ben Churralan [Beinn Churalain]; a woman's prayer to St Cyril 'O chaomh Chur[ralain]' and that the graveyard [Cladh Churalain] has mostly MacColls and MacInnes buried in it.
Dates:
August 1883
Story about Curalainn [Curalan/St Cyril] answering a prayer, 1884
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/255
Scope and Contents
Story about Curalainn [Curalan/St Cyril] answering a prayer, in which Ciorstan Mòr from Creag [Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] invoked Curalan with the prayer 'O chaomh Chu[ralainn] [tonn] aighearrach ort' to deal with youths who had defiled images of saints.
Dates:
1884
Story about praying to Cuirralain for healing, 29 August 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/83
Scope and Contents
Story about the burning of the wooden holy images or statues [of saints Columba, Moluag and Cyril/Curalan] by local young men possibly collected from Mary Carmichael, aged 71, Druimavuic, Glencreran [Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. An old woman at Leitir-ru-Altain [Letterwalton, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] called out to Cuirralain [Curalan/St Cyril] and he appeared before her and said, 'Mas duil leat an duine sin cuimich a lamh.' The woman took the breid (kertch) from her head and bound the...
Dates:
29 August 1883
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- Argyllshire Scotland 3
- Archaeology 2
- Cemeteries 2
- Cladh Churalain Argyllshire Scotland 2
- Glencreran Argyllshire Scotland 2
- Healing 2
- Tales 2
- Appin Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Beinn Churalain Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Biography 1
- Bonawe Glenorchy and Inishail (parish) Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Creag Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Customs 1
- Drumavuic Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Edinburgh -- Scotland 1
- Family History 1
- Fenians 1
- Fires 1
- Food 1
- Geography 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
- Letterwalton Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Love 1
- Oban Kilmore and Kilbride (parish) Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Placenames 1
- Poems 1
- Rocks 1
- Sacrilege 1
- Sayings 1
- Sgeir a' Phobuil Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Songs 1
- Superstition 1
- Tobar Churalain Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Vocabulary 1
- War 1
- Wells 1
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