MacNeil, Roderick, c1790-1875
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Story about a water horse or each-uisge, 23 May 1869
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/38
Scope and Contents
Story about a water horse or each-uisge collected from Roderick MacNeil, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay telling how a water horse took a girl away from her house on a Sunday and laid his head on her knee but she cut her apron around him to escape. He came again the following Sunday and carried her off to Creagan-oillt [possibly Creagan Uillt, Barraigh/Isle of Barra] and they were also seen at Glaic an da Bheann [Glaic an Dà Bheann]. After that her lungs were found floating on Lon-greann [possibly Lòn...
Dates:
23 May 1869
Story about Mac a Chreachain, 1869
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/59
Scope and Contents
Story about Mac a Chreachain probably collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay. In it Mac a' Chreachain prophesies that Ciosmaol [Caisteal Chiosmuil/Kisimul Castle, Barraigh/Isle of Barra] will be 'na garrai beiste dugh' [a cave for a black beast] and is sent to Maol donaich [Maol Dòmhnaich] as a punishment. He threw a stone into the sea and later caught a fish which had swallowed the same stone. He predicted that Barrai [Barraigh/Isle of Barra] would be full of...
Dates:
1869
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- Clach an Eich Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Creagan Uillt Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Crodh mara (sea-cattle) 1
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- Grithean Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Horses 1
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- Pabbay Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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