Skip to main content

MacLellan, Duncan, c1816-1893

 Person

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

Song beginning 'Mis an noc a tighinn gar ionnsuidh', 17 January 1874

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/37
Scope and Contents

Song beginning 'Mis an noc a tighinn gar ionnsuidh, A dh urachadh dhuibh na Callaig' [Cairioll Callaig or Hogmanay Carol] collected from Duncan MacLellan, crofter, Càrnan/Carnan, South Uist [Uibhist a Deas].

Dates: 17 January 1874

Song beginning 'Mise noc a tin gar n ion', 17 January 1874

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/41
Scope and Contents

Song collected from Duncan MacLellan, clachair [mason], Càrnan/Carnan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist, beginning 'Mise noc[hd] a ti[ghin]n gar n ion[nsuidh], Dh ur[achadh] dhuibh na Callaig' [Cairioll Callaig or Hogmanay Carol]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 17 January 1874

Song entitled 'Duan Na Muthairne', 17 January 1874

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/39
Scope and Contents

Song entitled 'Duan Na Muthairne' collected from Dun[can] MacLellan, clachair [mason], Carnan [Càrnan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] beginning 'Dunan na Muthairne a Ri[gh] na Greine, S Aluin Do Ghnuis da lub iarain'. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 17 January 1874

Song entitled 'Duan Na Muthairne', 17 January 1874

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/35
Scope and Contents

Song entitled 'Duan Na Muthairne' [Rune of the 'Muthairn'] collected from Duncan MacLellan, crofter, Càrnan/Carnan, South Uist [Càrnan, Uibhist a Deas] beginning 'A Righ na greine, Is aluinn do ghnuis'.

Dates: 17 January 1874

Song entitled 'Lorg An Ogain', c1875

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/73
Scope and Contents Song entitled 'Lorg An Ogain' [Seathan mac Rìgh Beiribh or John, son of the King of Bergen] collected from Donnacha Mac an Leallain [Duncan MacLellan], crofter, Iocar, Uist D[eas] [Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] beginning 'Lorg an ogain seach an t-àth, Ceum an rothaidh 's e ro dhian'. The song describes a raid made by the son of the King of Bergen and how he was overcome by Comhrag, Fionn's top houndsman and is composed of forty-six lines, which have been marked in pencil into...
Dates: c1875

Song entitled 'Lorg an Ogain', 10 January 1865 - 12 November 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/5
Scope and Contents Song entitled 'Lorg an Ogain' [Seathan Mac Rìgh Beirbh or John, Son of the King of Bergen] collected from Donacha Mac an Liallain [Duncan MacLellan], crofter, Iocar [Iochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] beginning 'Lorg an ogain seach an t-ath, Ceum an rothaidh 's e ro dhiann'. The text has been scored through in ink and a transverse note on folio 10r reads 'Transcribed this 12th Nov[ember] 1870 into MS Book No 4 page 10th A[lexander]. A[rchibald]. C[armichael].' Two annotations have been...
Dates: 10 January 1865 - 12 November 1870

Song entitled 'Lorg An Ogain', 12 November 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/3
Scope and Contents

Song entitled 'Lorg An Ogain' collected from Donnacha MacIlliallain [Duncan MacLellan] or Donnacha Bàn, mason and crofter, Carnan, Iocar, Uist a Chinne Deas [Càrnan, Iochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] on 10 January 1865, beginning 'Lorg an ogain seach an t-àth, Ceum an rothaid 'se ro-dhian'. The song has twenty-two verses and was transcribed from [field] notebook number I, page 17. Two additions have been made to the text in pencil.

Dates: 12 November 1870

[Song/Prayer] beginning 'Noc oich a chrochaidh chruaidh', 17 January 1874

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/36
Scope and Contents

[Song/Prayer] beginning 'Noc oich a chrochaidh chruaidh, Ceann (crann?) cruaidh ris na chrochadh Criosd' [Criosda Cleireach Os Ar Cionn/Christ the Priest Above Us] collected from Duncan MacLellan, crofter, Càrnan/Carnan, South Uist [Uibhist a Deas].

Dates: 17 January 1874

Song/Prayer beginning 'Noc oiche chrochari chruai', 17 January 1874

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/40
Scope and Contents

Song/Prayer collected from Duncan MacLellan, clachair [mason], Càrnan/Carnan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist, beginning 'Noc oiche chrochari chruai, Ceann cruai ris na chroch Criost'. Carmichael notes the dinal line 'Criost cleir os ar cionn' as being repeated. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 17 January 1874

Story about 'Alast[air] mor nam marst' of Boisdale, 17 January 1874

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/44
Scope and Contents Story about 'Alast[air] mor nam marst' of Boisdale [Baghasdal, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] probably collected from Duncan MacLellan, clachair [mason], Càrnan/Carnan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist, telling how he was so small when he was born that it was difficult to deliver him but when he grew up he 'was as big as two men'. The story also tells how Alasdair was 'the first of the Boisdales' and that two of 'Bois[dale's] lads' dug up a boat that had been 'sunk in a hole between Boi[dale] and...
Dates: 17 January 1874

Additional filters:

Subject
South Uist Howmore Inverness-shire Scotland 22
Songs 13
Tales 13
Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 7
North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 7
∨ more
Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 5
Cattle 5
Fishing 5
Language 5
Vocabulary 5
Biography 4
Customs 4
Death 4
Fenian cycle 4
Poems 4
Praise 4
Family 3
Family History 3
Hogmanay 3
Marriage 3
Placenames 3
Sayings 3
Voyages and Travel 3
Archaeology 2
Blessings 2
Cairinis North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
Cemeteries 2
Charms 2
Church Buildings 2
Creagorry Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 2
Fairies 2
Folk songs 2
Food 2
Geography 2
Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 2
Jesus Christ 2
Landowners 2
Love 2
Mermaids 2
Murder 2
Plants 2
Prayers 2
Protection 2
Righ Lochan 2
Saints 2
Vikings 2
Warriors 2
Whales 2
Africa 1
An Cnoc Stornoway (parish) Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
Argyllshire Scotland 1
Baleshare North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Balivanich Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Birds 1
Blacksmiths 1
Boats 1
Bodha na Cille Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Boisdale South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Buaile nam Bodach Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Childbirth 1
Christmas 1
Cill Amhlaidh South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Cnoc nam Mallach Boisdale (parish) South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Coal Period 1
Corn 1
Crodh mara (sea-cattle) 1
Cuchulain 1
Curses 1
Dance 1
Diarmaid 1
Disguise 1
Drimsdale South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Drowning 1
Edinburgh -- Scotland 1
Etymology 1
Fenians 1
Gearraidh Iain North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Geology 1
Geàrraidh na Mònadh South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Glasgow Lanarkshire Scotland 1
Gleann Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Griminish Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Griminish North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Grinding 1
Healing 1
Household employees 1
Howmore River South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Kilpheder South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Laments 1
Lionacuidhe South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
Loch Sgioport South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Loch Sunart Ardnamurchan (parish) Argyllshire Scotland 1
Lochboisdale South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Lullabies 1
Magic 1
+ ∧ less