Morrison, Kenneth, c1800-1864 (mason | Trien | Isle of Skye)
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Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Story about the 'Taoitear Saileach', c1862
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/13
Scope and Contents
Story about the 'Taoitear Saileach' [Taoitear t-Sàileach or Kintail Tutor] probably collected from Kenneth Morrison, Trithean/Trien, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye. The story begins by saying that An Taoitear t-Sàileach was a very bad man and quoting part of a saying in which he is described as one of the tree worst things about Scotland, the others being May frost and July fog. A widow told An Taoitear Sàileach that he could take away her cows but he could not take away her [sleep?]...
Dates:
c1862
Story entitled 'Am Britheamh Leothasach', c1862
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/11
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Am Britheamh Leothasach' collected from Coinneach Moireastan [Kenneth Morrison], Trithean near Carbost [Trien, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. The story tells how Am Britheamh Leòdhasach was a very bad man and that he once had a dream that John MacLeod was going to decapitate him. He went to MacLeoid Leothais [MacLeòid Leòdhais or MacLeod of Lewis] and told him about his dream. MacLeod asked him what to do about it and Am Britheamh suggested rounding up all the John...
Dates:
c1862
Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1860 to c1866
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112
Scope and Contents
Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. The majority of the volume has been used but intermittently there are groups of blank folios. Carmichael appears to have written in the book in the 1860s creating sections of different genres at different stages in the volume, with pages left blank in between to fill up appropriately. In about 1875 he has then used some of these blank pages to transcribe notes and stories but has not kept to the genres sections he initially created....
Dates:
1860 to c1866
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- Songs 8
- Tales 8
- Fenians 7
- Death 6
- Fenian cycle 6
- War 4
- Clans (Scotland) 3
- Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 3
- Sayings 3
- Talisker Isle of Skye Bracadale Inverness-shire Scotland 3
- Beheading 2
- Carbost Isle of Skye Bracadale Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Diarmaid 2
- Fionn MacCumhail 2
- Hunting 2
- Justice 2
- Language 2
- Love 2
- Marriage 2
- Murder 2
- Vocabulary 2
- Ardnamurchan (parish) Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Arthurian romances 1
- Barrisdale Glenelg (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Biography 1
- Character Analysis 1
- Cille Pheadair North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Clachan na Luib North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Coasts 1
- Cruelty 1
- Customs 1
- Disputes 1
- Dreams 1
- Family 1
- Family History 1
- Fernilea Isle of Skye Bracadale Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Fife Scotland 1
- Food 1
- Giants 1
- Glenshiel Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Griminish North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Haskeir Island North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Heisker North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Hogha Gearraidh North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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- Old age 1
- Oscar 1
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- Raasay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Riddles 1
- Righ Lochan 1
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