MacDonald, Alexander, c1850 (Aladsair na h-Aibhne | Cladach Chirceboist | North Uist | Inverness-shire | Scotland)
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Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 15 July 1870 to 19 October 1871
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, inscribed on the inside cover with 'Alexander A Carmichael Inland Revenue Lochmaddy N[orth] Uist 15/7 1870 Note Book No 8'. The majority of this notebook contains material collected on Tarasaigh/Taransay from the MacDonalds at Paible House, Mor or Marion MacQueen and Donald MacKinnon including notes on the island's archaeology, local history and geographical changes, with stories of how coastal erosion revealed burial sites and renditions of...
Dates:
15 July 1870 to 19 October 1871
Note about the use of horse and cow hair in bedding, 20 January 1871
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/162
Scope and Contents
Note collected from Alexander MacDonald, Cladach Chirceboist/Claddach Kirkibost, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist which reads 'Covers and blankets of horse & cows hair were the common bed clothes in Uist ri linn a Mhoraire Bhain' [in Am Morair Bàn's time].
Dates:
20 January 1871
Story about a wall collapsing on a coffin in Teampull na Trionaid, 20 January 1871
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/160
Scope and Contents
Story collected from Alexander MacDonald, Cladach Chirceboist/Claddach Kirkibost, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist telling how funeral was going from Lirinnish to Killemhoire [Liernis/Liernish and Cille Mhoire/Kilmuir] when 'The day came on cur as cabhadh'. The put the corpse in Teampull na Trionaid in the hope that the weather would improve and if it didn't then they would bury it there. When the people left the church the south wall fell down and buried the corpse. The corpse was allowed to...
Dates:
20 January 1871
Story about an insult made at Teampull na Trionaid, 20 January 1871
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/164
Scope and Contents
Story collected from Alexander MacDonald, Cladach Chirceboist/Claddach Kirkibost, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist telling how when MacDhonil Ghlais [MacDhòmhnaill Ghlais] came raiding at Carinish [Cairinis] they killed a cow and feasted on it in the Temple [Teampull na Trionaid/Temple of the Trinity]. One of the men took his first mouthful of beef saying 'Ichidh mi so eir tailcas na Trianaid' and subsequently choked on it. A woman struck him between the shouldders saying, 'A Thrianaid a Thrianaid...
Dates:
20 January 1871
Story about how kelp-making came to North Uist, 20 January 1871
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/165
Scope and Contents
Story collected from Alexander MacDonald, Cladach Chirceboist/Claddach Kirkibost, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist about how kelp-making came to North Uist. The story tells how when Am Moraire Ban [Am Morair Bàn] came to North Uist he brought his wife, three children and factor, called Kingsburgh, and they lived at Sollas [Solas]. They met a crofter at Bailemhartain whose animals were emaciated whereupon Kingsburgh told the man that Lady MacDonald had come among the Uist tentantry for assistance...
Dates:
20 January 1871
Story about Mac Thomais building part of Teampull na Trionaid, 20 January 1871
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/161
Scope and Contents
Story collected from Alexander MacDonald, Cladach Chirceboist/Claddach Kirkibost, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist which tells how Mac Thomais [Mac Thòmais] came home and built the west gable of the Temple [Teampull na Trionaid/Temple of the Trinity]. He meant to reroof the building too but Moraire Ban [Morair Bàn] would not let him. He adds that 'Sgeir ioc Thomais (?Ceiseam) is below the Temple' [Sgeir ic Coiseam].
Dates:
20 January 1871
Story about the collapse of one of the walls of Carnish Temple, January 1871
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/159
Scope and Contents
Story collected from Alex[ander] Macdonald or Alast[air] na h-ainne, Clad[dach] Kirkibost [Cladach Chirchboist, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] recalling the day that a wall fell down at Carnish Temple [Teampull na Trionaid]. The Dall mor [Dall Mòr] was holding a meeting there when he saw a bit of lime the size of a whelk fall and it occurred to him that the wall would fall down, so he whispered this to the Dall Mòr and the building was evacuated. 'They had hardly done so when the gable fell...
Dates:
January 1871
Story about the connection between Teampull Clann a Phiocair and an Tota Mhor
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/163
Scope and Contents
Story collected from Alexander MacDonald, Cladach Chirceboist/Claddach Kirkibost, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist which reads 'Teampull Clann a Phiocair was built about the same time as an To[bh]ta Mhor. The whole space bet[ween] the two was once covered.' [Chapel of the Mac Vicars and Teampull na Trionaid/Temple of the Trinity]
Dates:
15 July 1870 to 19 October 1871
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- Teampull na Trionaid North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 6
- Church Buildings 5
- Cairinis North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Cattle 2
- Cemeteries 2
- Customs 2
- Food 2
- Landowners 2
- Placenames 2
- Voyages and Travel 2
- Weather 2
- Agriculture 1
- Archaeology 1
- Architecture 1
- Asphyxiation 1
- Bedding 1
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Biography 1
- Building 1
- Burns 1
- Caisteal Bhuirgh Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Coasts 1
- Crofting 1
- Death 1
- Disputes 1
- Education 1
- Fairies 1
- Family 1
- Family History 1
- Fire 1
- Funeral Rites and Ceremonies 1
- Genealogy 1
- Geography 1
- Geology 1
- Hair 1
- Horses 1
- Houses 1
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Kelp industry 1
- Laments 1
- Language 1
- Liernis North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Liniclate Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Lochmaddy North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Losgaintir Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Malaclete North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Marriage 1
- Murder 1
- Names 1
- Nisishee Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Nunton Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Paibeil Taransay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Poor 1
- Rebukes 1
- Rocks 1
- Sayings 1
- Scarasta Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Seaweed 1
- Sgeir 'ic Coiseam North Uist (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Solas North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Songs 1
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Staoinebrig South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Stones 1
- Structural failures 1
- Swearing 1
- Taobh Tuath Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Taransay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Teampull Chlann a' Phiocair North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Udal North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Uidh Taransay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Vocabulary 1
- War 1
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