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Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106

Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. Written on the inside front cover is '2/9 1870. Oban' and on the flyleaf is '[deleted: Twas] Friday 2 Sep[tember]. 1870. 12 noon from Ob[an]'. Folios 1-3r and 75r to 117v are blank. The text on folio 3v and 4r and 4v is written updside down and is later text (29 January 1875). The contents are in two distinct sections, the first being material collected on Lios Mòr/Lismore and the second being material collected in South Uist. Much of the...

Dates: 2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, c1868 to 16 June 1876

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150

Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing primarily songs and stories collected in Miùghlaigh/Mingulay, Barraigh/Barra, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist and Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis. The main informants are Roderick MacNeil or Ruairidh an Rùma from Mingulay and Penelope MacLellan of Ormacleit/Ormaclete. The bulk of the material from MacNeil relates to the southernmost islands of the Hebrides and covers topics such as bird-fowling, the island way of life, place-names,...

Dates: c1868 to 16 June 1876

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1870 to 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90

Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing the stories 'Rocabarrai' and 'Cugarbhad'; some songs and song fragments; customs relating to religious festivals, particularly on the Isle of Barra; stories about the MacNeil of Barra; stories and archaeological notes on Castle Beagram [Caisteal Bheagram, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]; cattle charms and stories about the Lochlannaich [Vikings]. As well as archaeological notes on chapels and cemeteries the majority of the notebook...

Dates: 1870 to 1872

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 15 July 1870 to 19 October 1871

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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

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Story entitled 'An Sluagh', September 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/139

Scope and Contents Story entitled 'An Sluagh' in which two men coming through a cliff at Creag an La'uir [possibly on Barraigh/Isle of Barra] predict trouble from the fairy host. One man is lifted by the fairies into the air, flapping his arms like wings and is dropped into the sea but manages to make it back to shore. When asked by his companion why he went looking for the fairies he says that sometimes he lets them so that he can get somewhere else. Text has been scored through in ink as if transcribed...

Dates: September 1872

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Language: Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic X
Subject: Fairies X
Subject: Voyages and Travel X

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Subject: Biography 4; Customs 4; Death 4; Geography 4; Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 4; Language 4; North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 4; Placenames 4; Songs 4; South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 4; Vocabulary 4; Archaeology 3; Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 3; Cemeteries 3; Church Buildings 3; Family 3; Family History 3; Landowners 3; Love 3; Marriage 3; Cairinis North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2; Creagorry Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 2; Food 2; Geology 2; Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 2; Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 2; Laments 2; Malaclete North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2; Poems 2; Rocks 2; Sayings 2; Stones 2; Wells 2; Achadun Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1; Allt Aogain Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1; An Cnoc Stornoway (parish) Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1; Architecture 1; Argyllshire Scotland 1; Bernera Island Argyllshire Scotland 1; Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Birds 1; Caisteal Bheagram South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Caisteal Bhuirgh Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Castle Coeffin Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1; Castles 1; Cattle 1; Ceannlangabhat South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Children 1; Clach na h-Ealaidh Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1; Clachan Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1; Cladach Chirceboist North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Coasts 1; Contests 1; Creag an La'uir Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Cures 1; Disputes 1; Drowning 1; Fenians 1; Fiart Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1; Fishing 1; Fortifications 1; Funeral Rites and Ceremonies 1; Gearraidh Iain North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Genealogy 1; Gleann Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Gravestones 1; Houses 1; Huisinis Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Kentangaval Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Kidnapping 1; Liniclate Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Lionacuidhe South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1; Losgaintir Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Lullabies 1; Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Murder 1; Names 1; Nisishee Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Nunton Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Ormacleit South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Paibeil Taransay Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Plants 1; Port a' Charrain Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1; Prophecy 1; Protection 1; Punishment 1; Saints 1; Scarasta Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Seathain | mac Rìgh Èirinn 1; South Uist Howmore Inverness-shire Scotland 1; St Moluag's Cathedral Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1; Staoinebrig South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Stilligarry South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Stone crosses 1; Taobh Tuath Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Language: English 4
Names: MacDonald (of Clanranald) 4; MacDonald (of Sleat) 4; MacNeil (of Barra) 3; Carmichael, Alexander, 1832-1912 (Excise officer | folklorist and antiquarian | Edinburgh | Scotland) 2; MacLeod (of Dunvegan) 2; Black, John, c1784-1872 (pauper | probably Iain Ruadh or John Roy | Killean | Lismore | Argyllshire) 1; Boyd, Mary, c1844-1915 1; Campbell (Scalpay) 1; Campbell (of Airds) 1; Campbell (of Taransay) 1; Campbell, Ann (nian Dhonil ic Iain Oig | composer of the song 'Ailean Duinn') 1; Campbell, Donald, Sir, -1651 (of Airds) 1; Campbell, James, c1806-1876 ('Seumas Chailein' | fisherman | Kentangaval | Isle of Barra) 1; Campbell, Kenneth, Captain (of Uidh | Taransay | and Rodel | Isle of Harris) 1; Carmichael (Taylochan | Lismore | Argyllshire) 1; Carmichael, Duncan, fl1870 (Lismore | Argyllshire) 1; Catholic Church. Roman Catholic Church (c100-) 1; Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille) 1; Currie, Angus, c1787-1877 1; Currie, Archibald, 1821-1896 1; Ferguson, Mary, c1825-1909 (domestic servant | Cladach a' Bhaile Shear | North Uist) 1; Free Church of Scotland (1843-:) 1; HM Government | Board of Excise (1642-1909) 1; Livingstone, Baron of Bachuil (Lismore) 1; Mac Onail, Uisdean 1; MacAulay (of Brenish | Isle of Lewis) 1; MacAulay, Angus, c1788-fl1870 (An Cnoc | Isle of Lewis | Ross and Cromarty | Scotland) 1; MacAulay, Aulay, Rev, 1673-1758 (minister | Isle of Harris) 1; MacAulay, John, Rev, 1720-1789 (minister of Lismore | Argyllshire) 1; MacDonald (Milton | South Uist) 1; MacDonald (of Balranald) 1; MacDonald, Alexander, Sir, c1740-1795 1; MacDonald, Alexander, c1850 (Aladsair na h-Aibhne | Cladach Chirceboist | North Uist | Inverness-shire | Scotland) 1; MacDonald, Donald, -c1650 1; MacDonald, Donald, fl1546 1; MacDonald, Flora, 1722-1790 (Jacobite) 1; MacDonald, Lord of the Isles 1; MacDonald, Mac Uisdean (proprietor or factor | Griminis | North Uist) 1; MacDonald, Margaret, fl1870 (Mairead nighean Aonghais Duinn | Gearraidh Iain | North Uist | Inverness-shire) 1; MacDonald, Margaret, fl1870 (Malacleit | North Uist | Inverness-shire) 1; MacDonald, Mary, c1800-1883 (farmer's wife | Paible House | Taransay | Inverness-shire) 1; MacDonald, Ranald, c1834-1913 (sheep farmer | Taransay | Inverness-shire | Scotland) 1; MacFarlane, Catherine, c1806-1880 1; MacInnes, Christina or Chirsty, c1807-1894 1; MacInnes, Donald, c1800-1880 (crofter | Buail'-uachdrach | South Uist) 1; MacIntosh (of Moy) 1; MacIntosh, Catherine, c1807- 1; MacIntosh, Margaret, c1828-1883 1; MacIsaac, Hector, c1797-1878 (Eachann mac Ruaraidh | joiner | Iochdar | South Uist) 1; MacIsaac, Janet, c1798-1882 1; MacKinnon, John, fl1871 (Cairinis | North Uist | Inverness-shire) 1; MacLachlan (Fiart | Lismore | Argyllshire) 1; MacLean, Marion, 1843-1927 1; MacLellan, Duncan, c1816-1893 1; MacLellan, Penelope, 1796-1873 1; MacLeod (of Berneray) 1; MacLeod (of Harris) 1; MacLeod (of Lewis) 1; MacLeod, Hector, c1788- (Eachann mac Dhomhnaill ic Mhurchaidh ic Neill ic Coinnich ic Iain ic Ruaraidh ic Thormaid ic Uilleim ic Thorcail ic Leoid | Liniclate | Benbecula | Inverness-shire) 1; MacMhuirich (hereditary bards of Clanranald) 1; MacMillan, Mary, c1825-1883 (domestic servant | Lionacuidhe | South Uist) 1; MacNeil, Marion, 1843-1927 1; MacNeil, Mary, c1800- 1; MacNeil, Roderick, c1790-1875 1; MacPhee, Ann, 1847-1905 (or Ann MacKinnon | wife of Archibald MacKinnon, crofter | Carnan | South Uist) 1; MacPhee, Donald, c1816-1869 1; MacPherson, John, c1820-1885 (Iain Pearson | cottar | Kentangaval | Isle of Barra) 1; MacPhie, Barbara, c1800-1880 (or MacPhee | pauper | Drimsdale | South Uist) 1; MacQueen (Orasaigh | North Uist) 1; MacQueen, Mor, c1778-1880 (or Marion | nurse | Taransay | Inverness-shire | Scotland) 1; MacRae, Mary, c1790-1879 (dairymaid) 1; MacRury, Archibald, fl1870 (Balivanich | Benbecula | Inverness-shire) 1; Moluag, Saint, c530-592 (patron saint of Argyll) 1; National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (1780-1999) 1; Royal High School (1128-) 1; Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment). Royal Regiment of Foot (1633?2006) 1; Seaforth Highlanders. 72nd Highlanders (1778-1881) 1; Stuart, Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, Prince, 1720-1788 ('Bonnie Prince Charlie' | 'The Young Pretender') 1; Surname-Unknown, c1550 (a MacLea or Livingstone Baron) 1; University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 1; Urquhart, Robert, 1839-1928 (Inspector of Police | Alness | Ross and Cromarty) 1; Wheeler and Wilson Manufacturing Company. Wheeler and Wilson Company (1852-1907) 1; Wylie, John, c1600 (Fife settler | Stornoway | Isle of Lewis | Ross and Cromarty | Scotland) 1; mac Coiseam 1