MacLean, Ciorstan, c1855-1937
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, August 1903 to July 1904
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW178
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, which he used to collect material mainly from a Mary MacRae, Dùnan, Letterfearn, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty, Ciorstan MacLean née Cameron, Leideag, Barraigh/Isle of Barra and Margaret Campbell née Stewart and her husband Andrew, tinkers at Bohespic, Siorrachd Pheairt/Perthshire. There are twenty folios the first fourteen of which contain text. Most of the material was collected from Mary MacRae, who sang several waulking songs and...
Dates:
August 1903 to July 1904
Note about burial customs on Barraigh/Isle of Barra and accompanying vocabulary, August 1903
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/20
Scope and Contents
Burial customs on Barraigh/Isle of Barra, probably collected from Ciorstan MacLean née Cameron, Leideag, Barraigh/Isle of Barra, telling how a 'bonnach tollt' was put in the coffin and a coin is put under the coffin in the grave. 'The toll saved the bonnach from the corra-chagailt...Even the coin in the fasnadh had to be treated in a peculiar way to save it from the sithich' [fairies].' The vocabulary notes include 'Tàsg = the bird that foretells death tri sgramhann granda - less than a...
Dates:
August 1903
Verse beginning 'Raonabo cuir an t uisge os', August 1903
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/19
Scope and Contents
Verse collected from Ciorstan Cameron [Christina or Chirsty Cameron], Leideag [Barraigh/Isle of Barra], wife of John Maclean, crofter, beginning 'Raonabo cuir an t uisge os, S a leud bruich boch[d]'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
August 1903
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Customs 2
- Language 2
- Leideag Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Poems 2
- Vocabulary 2
- Weather 2
- Death 1
- Easter Bohespic Blair Atholl Perthshire Scotland 1
- Fairies 1
- Fasts and Feasts 1
- Funeral Rites and Ceremonies 1
- Geography 1
- Geology 1
- Glenshiel Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Goats 1
- Hospitality 1
- Language and Languages 1
- Letterfearn Glenshiel (parish) Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Lullabies 1
- Noise 1
- Over Bohespic Blair Atholl Perthshire Scotland 1
- Perthshire Scotland 1
- Placenames 1
- Proverbs 1
- Rainbow 1
- Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Sayings 1
- Songs 1
- Sutherland Scotland 1
- Tales 1
- Travelling people (tinkers or tinsmiths) 1
- Warnings 1
- Waulking songs 1 + ∧ less
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