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Archaeological notes on Kildonan and accompanying notes on Flora MacDonald and her husband, 24 May 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/82
Scope and Contents Archaeological notes on Kildonan [Cill Donnain, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. The various sites relating to St Donain are described as Eilean Donain or Isle Donain, which is where the saint's house was, the house being '50 x 26 feet with several surrounding ruins' and the island itself being 70 yards long by 50 yards wide. Cladh Donain [Cille Dhonnain] is described as a peninsula separated from Eilean Donain by another island, the relative distances being noted, and containing a ruined chapel...
Dates: 24 May 1870

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

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

Notes about the origins of the Patons in Uist [Uibhist] and cures, 3 February 1874

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/49
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Note about the origins of the Patons [or Beatons] in Uist [Uibhist] that they are descended from the Olla[mh] Ileach [Ollamh Ìleach], a celebrated herbalist, who lived at Dallabrog [Dalabrog/Daliburgh, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. It notes that 'The cuillion [holly] that he bro[ugh]t is good for cleibh druim', that am maraich [scurvy grass] could be found in cairns on the Strand and that the best water for boiling plants was in Geary heille [Geàrraidh Sheilidh/Garryhellie].

Dates: 3 February 1874

Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1883 to 1885

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW87
Scope and Contents Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing material collected between October 1867 and December 1885. The material dated from 1883 to 1885 was probably written down at source. The notebook is marked as 'No IV' and the inside cover gives his address as 30 Royal Circus, Edinburgh [Dun Eideann] and the date as 16 November 1883. The material transcribed and collected in this notebook includes love songs, religious songs, waulking songs and songs relating to cattle. Much...
Dates: 1883 to 1885

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Names
MacDonald, Flora, 1722-1790 (Jacobite) 3
MacDonald (Milton | South Uist) 2
MacDonald (of Clanranald) 2
Baleloch SSPCK School (-1801) 1
Beaton (medical practitioners | Islay) 1
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Beaton (or Paton | medical practitioners | South Uist) 1
Boyd, Mary, c1844-1915 1
Campbell, Anthony, 1825-1904 (fisherman and crofter | Kentangaval | Barra) 1
Carmichael, Alexander, 1832-1912 (Excise officer | folklorist and antiquarian | Edinburgh | Scotland) 1
Catholic Church. Roman Catholic Church (c100-) 1
Ferguson, Mary, c1825-1909 (domestic servant | Cladach a' Bhaile Shear | North Uist) 1
MacAulay (Isle of Lewis) 1
MacAulay, Angus, c1788-fl1870 (An Cnoc | Isle of Lewis | Ross and Cromarty | Scotland) 1
MacCodrum, Iain [John], c1693-1777 (Iain mac Fhearchair | Scottish Gaelic poet) 1
MacDonald (of Sleat) 1
MacDonald, Allan, Captain, c1720-1792 (of Kingsburgh | husband of Flora MacDonald) 1
MacDonald, Archibald, c1750-c1815 (Gille na Ciotaig | bard and satirist | Uist) 1
MacDonald, Donald, -c1650 1
MacDonald, Donald, fl1546 1
MacDonald, Donald, fl1885 (crofter | Griminish | Benbecula) 1
MacDonald, Margaret, fl1870 (Malacleit | North Uist | Inverness-shire) 1
MacDonald, Marion, fl 1870s-1880s 1
MacDonald, Marshal of France | Duke of Tarentum, 1765-1840 1
MacInnes, Christina or Chirsty, c1807-1894 1
MacInnes, John, c1801-1894 1
MacIntosh, Catherine, c1807- 1
MacIntosh, Margaret, c1828-1883 1
MacIntyre, Donald, c1797-c1890 1
MacLellan, Duncan, c1816-1893 1
MacLellan, Penelope, 1796-1873 1
MacLeod (of Lewis) 1
MacLeod, John, c1808-1887 (crofter) 1
MacLeod, Malcolm, Captain, c1796-1872 (master mariner | Lochmaddy | North Uist) 1
MacMhuirich (hereditary bards of Clanranald) 1
MacMillan, Mary, c1825-1883 (domestic servant | Lionacuidhe | South Uist) 1
MacNeil (of Barra) 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
MacRae, Mary, c1790-1879 (dairymaid) 1
Morison, John, fl1630-1708 (tacksman | Bragar | Isle of Lewis) 1
Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment). Royal Regiment of Foot (1633?2006) 1
Stewart, Mary, c1801-1877 1
Stuart, Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, Prince, 1720-1788 ('Bonnie Prince Charlie' | 'The Young Pretender') 1
Surname-Unknown, Saint, -617 (or Donan) 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
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