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Verse beginning 'Tha bhean is bo', 1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/35

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Verse beginning 'Tha bhean is bo, bu nabainn dhomh a gleann' and composed of seven lines.

Dates: 1892

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Verse or saying beginning 'Fad a leugan chan na laogh' and accompanying note, 22 August 1903

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/9

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Verse or saying probably collected from Mary MacRae, Dùnan, Letterfearn, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty, beginning 'Fad a leugan chan na laogh, 'S fad a thaobh dha na mheann'. The verse consists of four lines. The accompanying note reads 'These is how they were tied and length of the ciopan' [tether stake]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 22 August 1903

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Veynol [Vaynol] Park Wild Cattle, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1810

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Photograph of a small herd of Wild Cattle standing in a field at Veynol [Vaynol] Park, [Bangor, Wales] in the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Vizagapatam Breed Bull Calf, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/846

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Photograph of a Vizagapatam breed bull calf standing next to three men in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Vocabulary for 'athla' [heifer], August 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/60

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Vocabulary for 'athla' [heifer].

Dates: August 1909

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Vocabulary list for types of placenta, 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/144

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Vocabulary list for types of placenta composed of 'Tearnadh', 'Cruthach', 'Bathar' and 'Seile' being respectively the placentas of a woman, mare, cow and lastly hind, sheep and goat.

Dates: 1894

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Vocabulary note entitled 'Sea weed', 14 February 1895

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/88

Scope and Contents Vocabulary note written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Sea weed', listing twenty one types of seaweed; describing their physical characteristics such as 'Craigean a small plant like the wide spread palm of a baby'; in many cases noting the proportions of potash and carbonate of lime; uses for the sea weed and in one instance a story to 'throw some light on its [seaweed's] use in the Outer Hebrid[e]s in this century'. The seaweeds described are...

Dates: 14 February 1895

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Vocabulary note for 'Am Bra-lein', 'Fleothach' and 'Gleaghach', c1893

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/89

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Vocabulary note for 'Am Bra-lein', which is the 'Best bull of the fold'; 'Fleothach', which is 'the young bull of the fold - always full of game' and 'Fleaghach', which is 'a young man - fast'. Also notes that 'Am bra-lin = table cloth'.

Dates: c1893

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Vocabulary note for 'Geisnean', c1893

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/12

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Vocabulary note for 'Geisnean' which reads 'Geisnean = here cows goats gestate animals - geis = Swan.'

Dates: c1893

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Vocabulary note for 'Seamalach' and 'caraideachadh', 7 August 1886

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/13

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Vocabulary note probably collected from Duncan Cameron, police officer, Tobar Mhoire/Tobermory, Muile/Isle of Mull, for 'Seamalach' and 'caraideachadh' describing the former as a heifer whose calf had died and the latter as when the calf of one cow is killed, its tail is cut off and tied to a [cloth] and placed on another calf which can then suckle both cows.

Dates: 7 August 1886

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Verse beginning 'Tha bhean is bo', 1892

Verse or saying beginning 'Fad a leugan chan na laogh' and accompanying note, 22 August 1903

Veynol [Vaynol] Park Wild Cattle, 1870s-1930s

Vizagapatam Breed Bull Calf, 1870s-1930s

Vocabulary for 'athla' [heifer], August 1909

Vocabulary list for types of placenta, 1894

Vocabulary note entitled 'Sea weed', 14 February 1895

Vocabulary note for 'Am Bra-lein', 'Fleothach' and 'Gleaghach', c1893

Vocabulary note for 'Geisnean', c1893

Vocabulary note for 'Seamalach' and 'caraideachadh', 7 August 1886

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