Oran, c550
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Note about St Columba's first attempt to build a church on Iona, 1886
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/311
Scope and Contents
Note about St Columba's first attempt to build a church on Iona [Ì Chaluim Chille], in which the walls were put up during the day but fell down at night owing to the spirit of darkness. Oran or Oranus was sacrificed to stop this happening. Text scored through perhaps to indicate it has been transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
1886
Story about the saints connected to Lios Mòr/Lismore, 2 September 1870
Item
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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- Argyllshire Scotland 1
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- Cemeteries 1
- Church Buildings 1
- Death 1
- Iona Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Landowners 1
- Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Mutilation 1
- Oban Kilmore and Kilbride (parish) Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Placenames 1
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