MacLeod, Torcail, c1542-1566 (Torcail Oighre | son of Ruairidh MacLeod and Barbara Stewart)
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Notes and stories on Clan MacLeod, 29 August 1868
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/3
Scope and Contents
Notes and stories on Clan MacLeod of Lewis ['Clann 'ic Leòid 'ic Thorcuil'] collected from Aonas Mac Aulay [Angus MacAulay], aged 82, Croc na h-Aoi, [An Cnoc/Knock, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis]. MacAulay describes how 16 or 18 members of the clan are buried 'under the stone at Aoi' [Eaglais na h-Aoidhe] having been killed by Iain Garbh in Iain Wylie's house in Stornoway [Steòrnabhagh]. The last of this clan was said to be a small crofter called Calum MacLeoid mac Thor[cuil] ic Leoid whose...
Dates:
29 August 1868
Story about sithichean [fairy hills] in Ness district, 27 October 1873
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW115/12
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Story about sithichean [fairy hills] in Ness district [Nis, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis] and that they fell down when the fairies came out to hear 'ceol an t' Satain' [Satan's music?]. It adds that the fairies are also fir-chlis [the northern lights]. Carmichael notes that two other long stories were relayed one about 'Conn Dearg Torcal Oighre & Torc[al] Canallach [Conanach]' [MacLeods of Eòropaidh/Eoropie] and the other about how Rònaidh/North Rona was won and lost, but the details of...
Dates:
27 October 1873
Story about the MacLeods at Eòropaidh, 27 October 1873
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW115/10
Scope and Contents
Story about the MacLeods at Eòropaidh/Eoropie, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis, which states that the iron rampart was taken down from their house by Torcal Conanach [Torcail MacLeod] who lived at [Ullapool [Ullapul/Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty]], and that Torcal Oighre [Torcail MacLeod half-brother to the previous Torcail] lived with his father.
Dates:
27 October 1873
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- Inheritance and Succession 1
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- North Rona Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Punishment 1
- Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Stornoway Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Tunga Stornoway (parish) Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
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