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MacDonald, Catherine (or Catriona | daughter of Donald Gorm | South Uist)

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Letters from Murray, John, to Charles Lyell, 3 December 1829 - 6 May 1874

 File — Box Box 3.3: Series Coll-203/B1
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/74
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:
  1. 10 boxes of correspondence
  2. 2 boxes of miscellaneous papers and lecture notes
  3. 24 boxes of offprints of papers
  4. 294 notebooks
Dates: 3 December 1829 - 6 May 1874

Story about ghosts at Howmore cemetery and accompanying place-name note, 29 October 1872

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/108
Scope and Contents Story about ghosts at Howmore cemetery [Tobha Mòr, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] in which Catri[o]na ni[gh]ean Do[mh]n[a]il[l] Ghuirm volunteered to watch the cattle-fold at night while the man who should have been doing it went fishing at Loch Sgioport [Loch Skipport]. While there, she saw the graves open and people going in and out of them. A woman ghost approached her and Catriona barred her way with a cuigeal or distaff. The woman demanded to be let past saying that she was Mòr nighean Rìgh...
Dates: 29 October 1872

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Etymology 1
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Kilpheder South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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Loch Sgiopoirt South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1