MacNeil, Roderick, c1790-1875
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, c1868 to 16 June 1876
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing primarily songs and stories collected in Miùghlaigh/Mingulay, Barraigh/Barra, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist and Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis. The main informants are Roderick MacNeil or Ruairidh an Rùma from Mingulay and Penelope MacLellan of Ormacleit/Ormaclete. The bulk of the material from MacNeil relates to the southernmost islands of the Hebrides and covers topics such as bird-fowling, the island way of life, place-names,...
Dates:
c1868 to 16 June 1876
Notes and story about Naomh Moire [Maol-ruibhe], Naomh Brian[ain] and associated archaeological sites, 1867
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/74
Scope and Contents
Notes and story about Naomh Moire [Maol Rubha], Naomh Brian[ain] [Brendan] and associated archaeological sites probably collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay. The notes describe Tobar Chal[uim] Chille [St Columba's Well] as a muddy spring in a small gully east of the lighthouse [Barra Head, Beàrnaraigh/Berneray] and how St Maol Rubha's day was celebrated on Berneray 'as long as any of the old friamh had rel[atives] buried in the Cladh.' St Maol Rubha had a...
Dates:
1867
Song beginning 'A Sheum ic Eoin horo ghiulan' and accompanying story, 22 May 1869 and 16 June 1869
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/22
Scope and Contents
Song beginning 'A Sheum[ais] ic Eoin horo ghiulan, Is gorach [th]u horo ghiulain' collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 94 years, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay. The song is composed of eighteen lines. The accompanying story tells how Seumas mac Eoin ic an Ollamh Ilich or Seumas Sasunach fell in love with a married woman on Mingulay and poisoned her husband. An old woman saw him out one day in great distress and on being questioned he told her that a cloud was passing which was full of plague and would...
Dates:
22 May 1869 and 16 June 1869
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- Church Buildings 2
- Customs 2
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Love 2
- Songs 2
- An Cnoc Stornoway (parish) Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Archaeology 1
- Barra Head Lighthouse Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Biography 1
- Birds 1
- Borve Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Cairinis North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Cladh Bhrianain Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Cladh Chaluim Chille Mingulay Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Cladh Mhoire Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Cladh Mhoire Sandray Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Creagorry Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Death 1
- Drowning 1
- Fairies 1
- Family 1
- Family History 1
- Fishing 1
- Food 1
- Gearraidh Iain North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Geography 1
- Gleann Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Laments 1
- Landowners 1
- Language 1
- Lionacuidhe South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Lullabies 1
- Malaclete North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Manual work 1
- Marriage 1
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Ormacleit South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Pabbay Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Pabbay Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Placenames 1
- Plague 1
- Plants 1
- Poems 1
- Prophecy 1
- Protection 1
- Saints days 1
- Sanndraigh Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Sayings 1
- Seathain | mac Rìgh Èirinn 1
- South Uist Howmore Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Stone carving 1
- Stone crosses 1
- Tobar Chaluim Chille Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Vocabulary 1
- Voyages and Travel 1
- Warriors 1
- Waulking songs 1
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