MacNeil, Roderick, c1790-1875
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Story about the population of Miulay [Miùghlaigh/Mingulay], 1867
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/34
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Story about the population of Miulay [Miùghlaigh/Mingulay], probably collected from Roderick MacNeil, describing how three hundred years previously [c1560] MacNeil of Barra sent a boat over to the island during winter to see why there was a lack of activity. A man named MacPhie was sent on land to find out 'When he came to the houses which then stood on a rocky [Rua] N[orth] E[ast] of the present village he found all within dead.' On arriving back at the boat MacPhie was asked what he had...
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1867
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