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MacNeil, Roderick, c1790-1875

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Note about peats on Miùghlaigh/Mingulay, 1867

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/64
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Note about peats from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay stating that the peats are bad and scarce in Mingulay ''They are simp[ly] the surface soil cut off the rocks'. Stacks of peats at Biola Creag [Bual na Creige/Biulacraig] are mentioned though it is 'a dan[gerous] place for people to be working'. People from Bearnara [Beàrnaraigh/Berneray] cut their peats on Mingulay and Mingulay people build peat-stacks 'round with stones as they do on St Kilda [Hiorta]'.

Dates: 1867

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