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Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89

Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael probably while he lived at 31, Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, as this address is written in ink on the first folio. Written on the inside front cover but heavily scored is text which reads 'Mrs Malcolm MacLeod, [- Islay], widow of Mal[colm] MacLeod [Loch-]. The majority of the notebook contains material collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/ Islay relating folklore and natural history about the birds, fish, shellfish and animals found in and...

Dates: 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Genealogical note about descendants of Righ Lochlann, October 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/129

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Genealogical note about descendants of Righ Lochlann, probably collected in Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist, listing various clans from 'Auladh dearg Mac Ri[gh] Lochlain' to Clann ic Ruiry who were descended from 'one of the 20 men soldiers who came with Tochra ni[ghea]n a Chaanaich'.

Dates: October 1870

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Genealogical notes on the Livingstone family including a story from the Battle of Culloden, October 1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/68

Scope and Contents Genealogical notes on the Livingstone family including a story from the Battle of Culloden Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire. The notes include that Donald Livingstone, fought at the Battle of Culloden aged eighteen, where nine of his men were shot carrying the Prince's flag. He took the flag and 'swathed [it] round his body. He was shot down and was thought to be dead but he got up with nine bullet wounds - flesh wounds which were seen in his body when he died aged 79 or 80 years old'. There are...

Dates: October 1892

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Historical notes relating to the marriages and offspring of Clan Donald and accompanying archaeological notes about chapels, 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/186

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Historical notes relating to the marriages and offspring of Clan Donald Godfrey of Siol Gorrie [Sìol Goraidh] and Donald first Earl of Ross, John Earl of Antrim and Alexander of Lochaber. Accompanying archaeological notes relate to chapels built close to each other.

Dates: 1894

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Legend about the wren and the Irish army, 4 June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/6

Scope and Contents Legend about the dreolan or wren and the Irish army that when the English were asleep and the Irish were about to attack them during the night [at the Battle of the Boyne] the wren began eating crumbs on the drummer's head, waking him up and allowing him to alert the English to the attack. Consequently, 'the irish take a day in the year to kill the Dreathan (wren (St Pat[rick]?)' [referring to Wren Day or St Stephen's Day, 26 December]. Text has been scored through in pencil perhaps to...

Dates: 4 June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about Fear Achnacrois, August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/42

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A note probably collected from Christina Campbell née Macintyre, Lios Mòr/Lismore Earra, Ghàidheal/Argyllshire that Fear Achnacrois brought Irish workers over from Ireland to work lint on Lismore [Lios Mòr] and that this man was a relation of Alexander Carmichael's.

Dates: August 1883

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about the partridge, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/28

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Note probably collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/Islay about the partridge which reads 'Partri[d]ge Can quite run the peopl[e] Reachlain Iris' [Reachlainn/Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland]. The meaning of the note is unclear.

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes about a purchase and vocabulary, 23 March 1877

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/23

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Note probably collected from Anthony Campbell, Kentangval [Ceann Tangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Barra] about a purchase made by James MacNeill mac Ghilleaspaig Neill in Ireland. Also, Gaelic names for turbot and halibut, which have been scored out.

Dates: 23 March 1877

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes about fish, shellfish and crustaceans, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/88

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Notes about fish, shellfish and crustaceans collected on Ìle/Islay, including that 'Abhain Chul Davach Co[unty] Donegal [is] paved with siolag.' and listing differnt types of fish and their English name equivalent. Also notes that 'Long shells - fan-like got off Coll on one bank. On House Bank - 11 in[ches] long.' Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Poem beginning 'Tha coig coigeamh an Eirinn', c1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/96

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Poem beginning 'Tha coig coigeamh an Eirinn, Us coig coigeamh an Strath Eirinn' [Ireland, Srath Èireann/Strathearn, Siorrachd Pheairt/Perthshire]. The poem is composed of four lines.

Dates: c1892

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887

Genealogical note about descendants of Righ Lochlann, October 1870

Genealogical notes on the Livingstone family including a story from the Battle of Culloden, October 1892

Historical notes relating to the marriages and offspring of Clan Donald and accompanying archaeological notes about chapels, 1894

Legend about the wren and the Irish army, 4 June 1887

Note about Fear Achnacrois, August 1883

Note about the partridge, June 1887

Notes about a purchase and vocabulary, 23 March 1877

Notes about fish, shellfish and crustaceans, June 1887

Poem beginning 'Tha coig coigeamh an Eirinn', c1892

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