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Account of 'Clann 'Ic Illemhicheil' [Carmichaels], 14 December 1864

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/3
Scope and Contents Account of 'Clann 'Ic Illemhicheil' [Carmichaels], collected from Eoghan Mac Illemhicheil [Hugh Carmichael], age 80, Druim-na-moine, Apuinn [Druim-na-moina, Apainn/Appin, Earra-Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] in which he describes the family as being the oldest clan in the area (six hundred years), originating in Annat. He gives a brief account of Alexander's own family, the Barons of Taigh Sgurrain: their descent from the Easbaig Bàn or Fair-haired Bishop, and the loss of their lands to Sir Donald...
Dates: 14 December 1864

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

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1883 to 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing material collected mostly in An Apainn/Appin and Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire. A large proportion of the stories and biographical information about Appin was collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, who was known as Dòmhnall a' Bhrocair. Amongst the material collected from Dòmhnall a' Bhrocair are proverbs, sayings, customs, stories about local figures and families and historic anecdotes. The other main...
Dates: 1883 to 1887

Note about the etymology of Aird-bheala, 1895

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/98
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Note about the etymology of Aird-bheala which reads 'Aird-bheala or Aird-dheala west of Port-na-Haven Islay. Probably a corruption of Aird na h-Eala' [Àirdbheala, Port na h-Abhainne/Portnahaven, Ìle].

Dates: 1895

Short account of a trip to Ìle/Islay, 1 June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/59
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Short account of a trip to Ìle/Islay by Alexander Carmichael, describing how he landed at Port Ellen and drove to Bridgend finally travelling with his sister-in-law, Helen Carmichael and staying in Claidville [Port Ilein, Beul an Àtha and Cladville].

Dates: 1 June 1887

Story about a weather forecast, 6 June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/58
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Story by Alexander Carmichael at Claidville [Cladville], Ìle/Islay, in which Donald [Macunachy] [possibly Donald Maconachy or Donald MacMhurchy ie Donald Currie] correctly predicted the weather for the following day 'from the manner in which the clouds formed'.

Dates: 6 June 1887

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Names
Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille) 2
Currie, Donald, c1826- (crofter | Islay) 2
Bride, Saint, c453-525 (Kildare) 1
Campbell (of Argyll) 1
Campbell (of Barcaldine) 1
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Campbell (of Glenfeochan | Argyllshire) 1
Campbell (of Islay) 1
Campbell (of Lochnell) 1
Campbell, Colin, 1708-1752 ('Cailean Ruadh' | 'Cailean Uaine' | 'The Red Fox' | Cailean Ghlinn Iubhair | Glenure | Argyllshire) 1
Campbell, Donald, Sir, -1651 (of Airds) 1
Carmichael 1
Carmichael (Appin) 1
Carmichael, Helen, fl1887 (sister in law of Alexander Carmichael folklorist and antiquarian | ) 1
Carmichael, Hugh, 1785-1866 (tailor | Inverfolla | Appin | Argyllshire) 1
Carmichael, Mary, c1812-1889 (Druimavuic | Glencreran | Argyllshire) 1
Clann 'ic Ghille Ruitich ('The Reds' | 'Na Ruitich' | Argyllshire) 1
Cyril, Saint (Curalan) 1
Livingston, Ann, c1800- (crofter | Airds Bay | Taynuilt | Argyllshire) 1
Livingston, John, 1810-1895 1
Livingstone, Baron of Bachuil (Lismore) 1
MacAulay, John, fl1887 (Iain | fisherman | Gairloch | Ross and Cromarty | and Edinburgh) 1
MacColl, Donald, 1793-1886 (foxhunter | Glencreran | Argyllshire) 1
MacDonald (of Clanranald) 1
MacDonald, Alexander, c1610-1647 (Alasdair mac Colla | military leader | Taigh an Trithinn | Argyllshire) 1
MacKay, Hugh, fl1393 (lieutenant to MacDonald of Islay | Rinns of Islay) 1
MacLeod (of Dunvegan) 1
MacPhail, Donald, fl1884 (grocer | Quay | Oban | Argyllshire) 1
Maclean (of Duart) 1
Maconachy, Donald, fl1887 (or Macunachy | Islay) 1
Norman, fl1887 ('Norman the Bank' | North Uist | Inverness-shire) 1
Northern Lighthouse Board. Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses (1786-) 1
Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet) 1
Scottish Episcopal Church 1
Stewart (of Appin) 1
Stewart, Donald, c1500 1
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