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Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 14 November 1873 to 10 April 1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111

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Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. Of the ninety-three folios in the notebook, only twenty-two have been used.

Dates: 14 November 1873 to 10 April 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, 1874, 1877 and 1891

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108

Scope and Contents Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing songs, poems, tales, names, vocabulary and expressions collected in the Outer Hebrides [Na h-Eileanan an Iar]. The first part of the volume contains transcriptions taken as Carmichael listened to informants in 1877 while the second part appears to be copies of previous transcriptions of material collected by Carmichael and Rev Malcolm MacPhail in 1874 and written into the notebook in 1891. Amongst the material is a version of the lament...

Dates: 1874, 1877 and 1891

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

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Subject: Archaeology 3; Cattle 3; Customs 3; Fairies 3; Fishing 3; Geography 3; Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 3; Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 3; Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 3; Malaclete North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 3; Placenames 3; Poems 3; Birds 2; Cairinis North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2; Cemeteries 2; Charms 2; Creagorry Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 2; Death 2; Family 2; Food 2; Geology 2; Laments 2; Landowners 2; Marriage 2; Plants 2; Protection 2; Scarasta Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 2; South Uist Howmore Inverness-shire Scotland 2; Staoinebrig South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2; Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2; Voyages and Travel 2; An Cnoc Stornoway (parish) Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1; Argyllshire Scotland 1; Baleshare North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Bodha na Cille Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Bragar Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1; Caisteal Bhuirgh Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Cladach Chirceboist North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Coasts 1; Disputes 1; Drowning 1; Fish 1; Funeral Rites and Ceremonies 1; Garryhellie South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Gearraidh Iain North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Genealogy 1; Geàrraidh na Mònadh South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Gleann Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Griminish Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Hogmanay 1; Houses 1; Justice 1; Kentangaval Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Kilpheder South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Liniclate Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Lionacuidhe South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Losgaintir Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Love 1; Lullabies 1; Mermaids 1; Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Ministers (Clergy) 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; Pabbay Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Paibeil Taransay Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Prophecy 1; Proverbs 1; Riddles 1; Rocks 1; Saints 1; Seathain | mac Rìgh Èirinn 1; Skeabost Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Stilligarry South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Stone crosses 1; Stones 1; Taobh Tuath Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Taransay Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Teampull na Trionaid North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Tobha Beag South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Trees 1; Udal North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Uidh Taransay Inverness-shire Scotland 1; Underwater archaeology 1
Names: MacDonald (of Clanranald) 3; MacAulay (of Brenish | Isle of Lewis) 2; MacAulay, Aulay, Rev, 1673-1758 (minister | Isle of Harris) 2; MacDonald (of Sleat) 2; MacDonald, Flora, 1722-1790 (Jacobite) 2; MacLellan, Duncan, c1816-1893 2; MacLeod (of Berneray) 2; MacNeil (of Barra) 2; Baleloch SSPCK School (-1801) 1; Beaton (or Paton | medical practitioners | South Uist) 1; Boyd, Mary, c1844-1915 1; Brendan, Saint (the Elder) 1; Bride, Saint, c453-525 (Kildare) 1; Campbell (of Taransay) 1; Campbell, Ann (nian Dhonil ic Iain Oig | composer of the song 'Ailean Duinn') 1; Campbell, Anthony, 1825-1904 (fisherman and crofter | Kentangaval | Barra) 1; Campbell, Kenneth, Captain (of Uidh | Taransay | and Rodel | Isle of Harris) 1; Carmichael, Alexander, 1832-1912 (Excise officer | folklorist and antiquarian | Edinburgh | Scotland) 1; Catholic Church. Roman Catholic Church (c100-) 1; Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille) 1; Ferguson, Mary, c1825-1909 (domestic servant | Cladach a' Bhaile Shear | North Uist) 1; Free Church of Scotland (1843-:) 1; Mac Onail, Uisdean 1; MacAulay (Isle of Lewis) 1; MacAulay, Angus, c1720- (or Aeneas | son of Rev Aulay MacAulay | Isle of Harris) 1; MacAulay, Angus, c1788-fl1870 (An Cnoc | Isle of Lewis | Ross and Cromarty | Scotland) 1; MacAulay, Kenneth, Rev, 1723-1779 (minister | Cawdor | Nairnshire) 1; MacCodrum, Iain [John], c1693-1777 (Iain mac Fhearchair | Scottish Gaelic poet) 1; MacDonald (Milton | South Uist) 1; MacDonald (of Balranald) 1; MacDonald (of Boisdale | South Uist) 1; MacDonald, Alexander, 1698-1768 1; MacDonald, Alexander, Sir, c1740-1795 1; MacDonald, Alexander, c1850 (Aladsair na h-Aibhne | Cladach Chirceboist | North Uist | Inverness-shire | Scotland) 1; MacDonald, Archibald, c1750-c1815 (Gille na Ciotaig | bard and satirist | Uist) 1; MacDonald, Donald, -c1650 1; MacDonald, Donald, fl1546 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, Marshal of France | Duke of Tarentum, 1765-1840 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; MacInnes, Christina or Chirsty, c1807-1894 1; MacInnes, John, c1801-1894 1; MacIntosh, Margaret, c1828-1883 1; MacIntyre, Donald, c1797-c1890 1; MacIsaac, Janet, c1798-1882 1; MacKinnon, John, fl1871 (Cairinis | North Uist | Inverness-shire) 1; MacLellan, Penelope, 1796-1873 1; MacLeod (of Dunvegan) 1; MacLeod (of Harris) 1; MacLeod (of Lewis) 1; MacLeod, Flora, -1886 (Fionnaghal | Staoinebrig | South Uist) 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; MacLeod, John, c1808-1887 (crofter) 1; MacMhuirich (hereditary bards of Clanranald) 1; MacMillan, Mary, c1825-1883 (domestic servant | Lionacuidhe | South Uist) 1; MacNeil, Marion, 1843-1927 1; MacNeil, Roderick, c1790-1875 1; MacPhail, Malcolm, Rev, 1837-1906 (minister | Kilmartin | Argyllshire) 1; MacPhee, Ann, 1847-1905 (or Ann MacKinnon | wife of Archibald MacKinnon, crofter | Carnan | South Uist) 1; MacPhee, Donald, c1816-1869 1; MacPherson, Mary, 1821-1898 1; MacPherson, Neil, 1781-1877 (crofter | Liniclate | Benbecula) 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; Morison, John, fl1630-1708 (tacksman | Bragar | Isle of Lewis) 1; Morrison, John, c1811-1888 (ground officer | Lingreabhagh | Isle of Harris) 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; Stewart, Mary, c1801-1877 1; Stuart, Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, Prince, 1720-1788 ('Bonnie Prince Charlie' | 'The Young Pretender') 1; University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 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