MacNeil, Roderick, c1790-1875
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Song about Uamh-an-Oir, accompanying story and notes, 1867
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/42
Scope and Contents
Song about Uamh-an-Oir probably collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay beginning 'Na minn bheaga na minn bheaga/theaga, Dol eir creagan dol sna creag' composed of thirteen lines. Uamh-an-Oir is described as starting at Cliata cliff and going under Barra to Gearragaal east of Orasay [Uamh an Òir, Cliaid, Orasaigh, Barraigh/Isle of Barra]. The story tells how five men went into the cave with dogs but only the dogs returned and they were hairless. 'The smith of...
Dates:
1867
Story about 'Iain Og mac Mhic ic Neil', 1867
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/61
Scope and Contents
Story collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay about 'Iain Og mac Mhic ic Neil' [Iain Òg mac Mhic ic Neill] telling how when a shipwreck occurred off Vaslan [Vaslain, Barraigh/Isle of Barra] he sent people to get a doradh [dorgh or handline] to save the people who had been on board. Stones were put on the end of the lines and it was these stones which killed the people when thrown to them. The survivors told the king that Iain Òg had killed them and the king...
Dates:
1867
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- Beinn Chliaid Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Caves 1
- Cliaid Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Dogs 1
- Drowning 1
- Fugitives 1
- Gearragaal Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Hair 1
- Language 1
- Loss (of people or things) 1
- Men 1
- Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Newton North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Orasaigh Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Placenames 1
- Punishment 1
- Ships, Loss of 1
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