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Address for 'N[-] Ross', 1894
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/188
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Address which reads 'N. Ross c/o Mrs Macfarlane, 23 Livingstone Place' [Dùn Èideann/Edinburgh].
Dates:
1894
Address for 'R. M. Lewis 17 Russell St Swansea', c1892
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/80
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Address for 'R[ichard]. M. Lewis 17 Russell St Swansea'.
Dates:
c1892
'Airi [sic] na h-aon Oichi' [sic] [The shieling of the one night], c late 19th century
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW461
Scope and Contents
Tale headed 'Airi [sic] na h-aon Oichi' [sic].
Dates:
c late 19th century
Alasdair a laoigh mo chéile: waulking song in praise of Alasdair mac Colla, late 19th-early 20th century
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW376
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Two copies of Alasdair a laoigh mo chéile: waulking song in praise of Alasdair mac Colla (Sir Alexander MacDonald, clan leader, d.1647), one copy is handwritten, one typescript. Written by Dorothy Brown (Diorbhail Nic a' Bhriuthainn, from the Island of Luing, fl.1644) and possibly used in William J. Watson's Bárdachd Gháidhlig.
Dates:
late 19th-early 20th century
'An Cu Glas' and 'Bas Fhraoich', c 1861
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW431
Scope and Contents
Both 'An Cu Glas' [The grey dog] and 'Bas Fhraoich' [The death of Fraoch] are fragmentary tales.
Dates:
c 1861
'An Fheinn air a h-Uilinn', Early 20th century
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Identifier: Coll-98/3/3/3
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Marked 'Mackinnon A17' and noted thus in previous historical records. The title of the booklet, An Fheinn air a h-Uilinn translates to English has 'The Fianna on their elbows', possibly referring to the semi-independent warrior bands in Irish mythology. It is a proverb in Gaelic to describe an action or activity only half complete. This notebook contains prose, possibly an essay, about the proverb. There are a number of annotations, possibly tutor's...
Dates:
Early 20th century
An t-Eilean Uaine, late 19th-early 20th century
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW392
Scope and Contents
Gaelic tale, headed 'An t-Eilean Uaine' (The Island of Mull).
There are additional extracts of a tale headed 'The Melodeous Lady Ford' included on the verso side of two of the pages.
Dates:
late 19th-early 20th century
Archaeological and historical notes on Caisteal Bhuiri and Clanranald, 18 January 1871
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/137
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Archaeological and historical notes on Caisteal Bhuiri [Caisteal Bhuirgh/Borve Castle, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula] and Clanranald. Among the notes it is stated that Raol mac Alein [Raghnall mac Ailein] was the last to inhabit Caisteal Bhuirgh and that he added the porch and extended the west side of it. The castle was originally built on a sgeir mhara and Biorlain mac ic Ailein [Clanranald's birlinn] was anchored 'in a poll' to the east side of it. After that, children used to swim there. In...
Dates:
18 January 1871
Archaeological and historical notes on Teampul na Trianaid, 18 January 1871
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/134
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Archaeological and historical notes on Teampul na Trianaid collected from John Mac Innon [John MacKinnon], Carnish [Teampull na Trionaid, Cairinis/Carinish, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] including that it was built by Nin Mhic Dhuil Latharna [Nighean Mhic Dhùghaill, a daughter of MacDougall of Lorn] who went around building in different places to leave a name behind her. MacKinnon recalls seeing charred wood on top of the temple as a result of wood being burnt across Scotland in one night 'the...
Dates:
18 January 1871
Archaeological and historical notes on the construction of Teampull na Trionaid, 18 January 1871
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/136
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Archaeological and historical notes collected from John MacKinnon, Cairinis/Carinish, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist on the construction of Teampull na Trionaid. Included in the details are that the gable of the building fell down after people dug at the foundations to get the flagstone which were there. A man known as Uilleam Clachair, possibly William Paterson, who came from Assaint a Tua [Asainte/Assynt, Cataibh/Sutherland] to work at Baile Raghnaill/Balranald and Baile nan Caileach/Nunton...
Dates:
18 January 1871