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Currie, Donald, c1826- (crofter | Islay)

 Person

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael probably while he lived at 31, Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, as this address is written in ink on the first folio. Written on the inside front cover but heavily scored is text which reads 'Mrs Malcolm MacLeod, [- Islay], widow of Mal[colm] MacLeod [Loch-]. The majority of the notebook contains material collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/ Islay relating folklore and natural history about the birds, fish, shellfish and animals found in and...
Dates: 1887

Note about birds killing other birds, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/38
Scope and Contents

Note about birds killing other birds probably collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/Islay, which reads 'Saw ravens kil[lin]g hens here Gulls kill[in]g ducklings'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Note about Donald MacMhuirich [Currie]'s age, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/42
Scope and Contents

Note about Donald MacMhuirich [Donald Currie], crofter, Ìle/Islay, that he is fifty-one years of age.

Dates: June 1887

Note about Donald Macmhuraich's dogs, 4 June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/7
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Note about Donald Macmhuraich's [Donald Currie] dogs which reads 'Donald Macmhuraich three scores of times had dogs [call] to the Druid[eag] with diff[erent] dogs this'. Text has been scored through in pencil perhaps to indicate it has been transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 4 June 1887

Note about herring and hake, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/46
Scope and Contents

Note collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Baile Meadhanach/Ballymeanach, Ìle/Islay, which reads 'Calmoir Herring haig - dif[ficult] to fish.' Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Note about horse or cow hair, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/43
Scope and Contents

Note about horse or cow hair collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/Islay, the meaning of which is unclear. Also, vocabulary note which reads 'Conachag = shell'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Note about otters on Ìle/Islay, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/34
Scope and Contents

Note about otters on Ìle/Islay probably collected from Donald Currie, crofter there, which states that 'Beiste donna' is an expression for an otter and that [Donald] 'Killed an otter larger than a barn door. The[y] larger than any ever seen in Islay - (twice attacked).'

Dates: June 1887

Note about place-names on Ìle/Islay, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/55
Scope and Contents

Note about place-names on Ìle/Islay probably collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Baile Meadhanach/Ballymeanach, which reads 'Airdbheala, Port Bheala or speala. W[est] of P[or]tnahaven Isla Cala.'

Dates: June 1887

Note about shellfish, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/47
Scope and Contents

Note about shellfish collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Baile Meadhanach/Ballymeanach, Ìle/Islay, stating that 'Donnag [cockles or fish] are among stones in [the] shore' and the sizes of 'Gearran cruacach' [probably lumpfish] and 'Gearran greis'.

Dates: June 1887

Note about the bird 'Balaire-bothan' [white-breasted cormorant] and fragment of a song, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/33
Scope and Contents

Note about the bird 'Balaire-bothan' [white-breasted cormorant] probably collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/Islay, which reads 'Balaire-bothan larger than sgart [scart] - white spot on thigh'. Also includes a fragment of a song beginning 'Deoch do dh iarr balair bothair'.

Dates: June 1887

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Argyllshire Scotland 34
Birds 19
Ballymeanach Islay Argyllshire Scotland 14
Tales 10
Language 6
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Vocabulary 6
Birds of prey 5
Fish 5
Hunting 4
Biological rhythms 3
Eggs 3
Fishing 3
Nests 3
Portnahaven Islay Argyllshire Scotland 3
Weather 3
Biography 2
Bird migration 2
Bird watching 2
Birdsongs 2
Eels 2
Ireland 2
Placenames 2
Poems 2
Sayings 2
Shellfish 2
Songs 2
Age and Employment 1
Airdbheala Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
Anatomy 1
Animal behaviour 1
Archaeology 1
Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Body, Human 1
Cats 1
Cattle 1
Children 1
Cladville Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
Colonsay Argyllshire Scotland 1
County Donegal Ireland 1
Criminals 1
Curses 1
Customs 1
Dogs 1
Drinking customs 1
Edinburgh -- Scotland 1
Etymology 1
Gairloch (parish) Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
Horses 1
Insects 1
Irish Sea Europe 1
Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Kidnapping 1
Kilchiaran Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
Kilchoman Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
Kintyre Argyllshire Scotland 1
Lizards 1
Loch Gruinart Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
Lough Derg County Donegal Ireland 1
North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Northern Ireland 1
Otters 1
Plants 1
Port Bheala Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
Port Ellister Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
Protection 1
Proverbs 1
Rathlin Island County Antrim Northern Ireland 1
Reptiles 1
Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
Saligo River Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
Sea birds 1
Sea life 1
Snakes 1
St Kilda Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Stone crosses 1
Street Addresses 1
Voyages and Travel 1
Wester Ellister Islay Argyllshire Scotland 1
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