MacNeil, Catherine, c1852-1906
Person
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Prayer beginning 'A Sp[ioraid] naomh is mo neart', 13 June 1901
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/21
Scope and Contents
Prayer beginning 'A Sp[ioraid] naomh is mo neart' collected from Catriona Macniell [Catherine MacNeill], cottar, Breuvaig [Brèibhig/Brevig, Barraigh/Isle of Barra]. The prayer is set out in ten verses of four lines each. Adjacent to the first verse is written 'Copied' and the text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere. Catriona is described as 'all alone in a poor bothag.'
Dates:
13 June 1901