MacNeil, Roderick, Colonel, -1822 ('Roderick the Gentle' | 20th chief of MacNeil of Barra)
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Account of a fishing trip around Mingulay with accompanying place-name notes, descriptions and stories, 23 May 1869
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/31
Scope and Contents
Account by Alexander Carmichael of a fishing trip around Miulay [Miùghlaigh/Mingulay] with accompanying place-name notes, descriptions and stories. Carmichael notes geographical features such as high points, caves, rocks or arches; archaeological sites such as dùns or graveyards; places people have used for looking after livestock or catching birds and fish, noting breeding grounds or habits of some birds; and sea-faring items such as the conditions of the sea or navigation techniques. One...
Dates:
23 May 1869
Story about Caibeal Bharra, September 1872
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/159
Scope and Contents
Story about Caibeal Bharra [Cille-Bharra, Barraigh/Isle of Barra] that its stones were used by Colonel [Roderick] MacNeil to build roads and dykes in Eoligarry [Eòlaigearraidh], on the advice of a mason named [Peter] Dawson, and that the colonel never prospered after that. Carmichael describes the chapel as having been 'high & large. Full of skulls & bones taken up fr[om] the graves'. The story has been scored through lightly in pencil.
Dates:
September 1872
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- Am Blai Lin Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Am Bo Carrach Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- An Aonaig Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Arnamul Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Birds 1
- Bual na Creige Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Church Buildings 1
- Cille Bharra Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Cladh Neart Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Coastal Landforms 1
- Coire Fhiarail Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Drowning 1
- Eoligarry Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Fala Mhuilt Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Fishing 1
- Fortifications 1
- Geography 1
- Geology 1
- Glaic nam Basdairean Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Gunamul Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Landowners 1
- Language 1
- Leac Ia'un Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Leac Shleite Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Love 1
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- Mingulay Scotland Scotland 1
- Na Gilleachan Ruadh Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Placenames 1
- Roads, Design and Construction 1
- Ru Eoiridh Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Rubha Liath Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Sea faring 1
- Sheep 1
- Sithein a' Bhealaich South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Sleat (parish) Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Sloc Chaisigeo Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Sloc Chremisgeo Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Sloc na h-Aoineig Mingulay Inverenss-shire Scotland 1
- Solon Beag Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- St Kilda Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Susabeist [Mingulay] Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Tides 1
- Tom a' Mhaide Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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