MacNeil, Roderick, c1790-1875
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Fragment of a story about Calum Cille [St Columba], 1867
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/75
Scope and Contents
Fragment of a story about Calum Cille [St Columba] probably collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, MiĆ¹ghlaigh/Mingulay which describes him as 'na dhuin[e] cruai[dh]' [a hard man]. A crowd of people were watering Calum Cille's crops when one man asked the housekeeper, who was baking, for some food. She refused him and then he asked for a piece of dough 'as ne Dia' [in the name of God?] and she said she could not refuse him. The man put the dough on the fire and it turned into...
Dates:
1867
Story about a sick woman in an unthatched house, 1867
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/33
Scope and Contents
Story about a sick woman in an unthatched house on MiĆ¹ghlaigh/Mingulay in which Carmichael was encouraged by 'My old friend Ruary' [Roderick MacNeil] to visit the sick woman even although Carmichael did not know her as Roderick thought she would appreciated it. On arriving at the house he was surprised that the woman was young and 'comely' but saw that she was completely paralysed with rheumatism. He also noticed that there was only a tiny amount of roof over the bed where she lay as 'The...
Dates:
1867
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