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Archaeological notes on Crois-Ch-Chille [Crois Chaluim Chille] and Tobar C-Chille [Tobar Chaluim Chille], 1867

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/54

Scope and Contents Archaeological notes on Crois-Ch-Chille and Tobar C-Chille [Crois Chaluim Chille/Columba's Cross and Tobar Chaluim Chille/Columba's Well, Beàrnaraigh/Berneray], noting the height of the cross and the position of an altar next to it and a leab-a-chràidh [leabaidh c] composed of two stones one of which was where Calum Cille prayed and the other where he slept. He notes that this was when Calum Cille consecrated the burial place. Tobar Chaluim Chille is described as a font rather than a well as...

Dates: 1867

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Charm beginning 'Bog an loinid anns a mhun (bhurn?)', 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/9

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Charm beginning 'Bog an loinid anns a mhun (bhurn?)' [for healing the eye].

Dates: 1883

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Charm beginning 'Cha[idh] C[riosd] air na asal', July 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/34

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Charm beginning 'Cha[idh] C[riosd] air na asal', probably collected from Angus Ross, crofter [Ross and Cromarty]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: July 1909

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Charm beginning 'Mar a dh-orduich Mac an Luin' and accompanying note, c1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/44

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Charm beginning 'Mar a dh-orduich Mac an Luin' which is used on cattle. The note describes how the operator places their elbow to the tail of the animal measuring 'lamh-choille' [a cubit] along the spine until she gets to the mouth.

Dates: c1870

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Charm beginning 'Paid[ear] Nomh aon' and accompanying note, 6 September 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/86

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Charm beginning 'Paid[ear] Nomh aon' and accompanying note collected from William Dingwall, crofter, Strath [Srath, Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty]. The note states that the reciter keeps the thread in his mouth and he does not put knots in the thread as he does not believe in them adding 'He never did this to a brute beast - only to human beings'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 6 September 1909

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Charm called 'Casga fala' and accompanying note, September 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/126

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Charm called 'Casga fala' beginning Rug[adh] Ios[a] am Beth[lehem] and accompanying note stating that in some places it was used by the ban-ghluin [bean-ghlùin - midwife] and also that the Perthshire form of midwife is 'b[e]an-phlaid[e]'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: September 1909

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Charm entitled 'An Eala-Bhì', c1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/21

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Charm entitled 'An Eala-Bhì' [St John's Wort] collected from John Paton or Beaton or Bethune, shepherd, Àird-nan-Laogh, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist beginning 'An Eala-bhi! 'an Eala-bhi!, Mo niarach neach aig am bith'. Text has been marked as having been transcribed.

Dates: c1870

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Charm entitled 'An Rua - Rose', 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/16

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Charm entitled 'An Rua - Rose' for healing a reddened udder collected from Catherine MacIntosh, pauper, Staoligearry, South Uist [Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas] on 20 May 1875, beginning 'Seall a Chriost a bhean s a cioch air at'. Text has been scored through in pencil.

Dates: 1883

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Charm entitled 'An Torranan' and accompanying note, c1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/20

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Charm entitled 'An Torranan' [Charm of the Figwort] collected from John Paton or Beaton or Bethune, shepherd, Aird-nan-Laogh, South Uist [Àird nan Laogh, Uibhist a Deas] and accompanying note, written transversely in a different ink over the text of the previous charm 'Eolas Beum Sula' (see Coll-97/CW7/19) and in the margin of folio 28v, describing where the figwort grows, how it is gathered and how it is used in the charm.

Dates: c1870

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Charm entitled 'Bun Dearg' with vocabulary and accompanying note about medicinal plants, c1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/48

Scope and Contents Charm entitled 'Bun Dearg' [Charm of the Red Water] beginning 'An t-eolas a rinn Calum-cille, Us leth chas sa churrachan'. The accompanying note gives vocabulary for plants which have medicinal properties, citing their uses for example 'The splitting of the human hair at the point is called gadmunn. The plant called the gadmunn prevents this hence the name.' Mention is also made of the availability of the plants in Iochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. The plants are used for ailments in both...

Dates: c1870

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Archaeological notes on Crois-Ch-Chille [Crois Chaluim Chille] and Tobar C-Chille [Tobar Chaluim Chille], 1867

Charm beginning 'Bog an loinid anns a mhun (bhurn?)', 1883

Charm beginning 'Cha[idh] C[riosd] air na asal', July 1909

Charm beginning 'Mar a dh-orduich Mac an Luin' and accompanying note, c1870

Charm beginning 'Paid[ear] Nomh aon' and accompanying note, 6 September 1909

Charm called 'Casga fala' and accompanying note, September 1909

Charm entitled 'An Eala-Bhì', c1870

Charm entitled 'An Rua - Rose', 1883

Charm entitled 'An Torranan' and accompanying note, c1870

Charm entitled 'Bun Dearg' with vocabulary and accompanying note about medicinal plants, c1870

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