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Fragment of a song beginning 'Bu tu sealg a bhig', June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/190
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Fragment of a song beginning 'Bu tu sealg[air] a bhig[ein], Nu[ai]r a thig an rothachan'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Fragment of a song beginning 'Cait an ro thu 'n diugh 's an de', c1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/86
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Fragment of a song [Buain nan Dearcan ris an Sprèidh or Plucking Berries by the Fold] beginning 'Cait an ro thu 'n diugh 's an de, Mhic Iain Ghasdain! Mhic Iain Ghasdain!'. There are only three lines to the fragment with three blank lines between the first two lines and the third line. The text has been written in ink.

Dates: c1892

Fragment of a song beginning 'Cha nileach agam ni sgriob', c1865

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/35
Scope and Contents

Fragment of a song beginning 'Cha nileach agam ni sgriob ars Donill Cuimeineach', which is probably part of the comic song entitled 'Port (Duet)' found at CW113/30.

Dates: c1865

Fragment of a song beginning 'Cha ro dad a shibhinn oirre', c1865

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/33
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Fragment of a song beginning 'Cha ro[bh] dad a shibhinn oirre, S ged nach faighinn idir i' which is probably part of the comic song entitled 'Port (Duet)' between Donull Cuimineach and Alasdair Taillear found at CW113/30. This piece of text is written upside down on the page.

Dates: c1865

Fragment of a song beginning 'Challain eile 's na bho hi O', 1895

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/61
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Fragment of a song beginning 'Challain eile 's na bho hi O, Aig Beinn a cheo' written in ink. The song fragment if composed of six lines and has been scored through in pencil as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1895

Fragment of a song beginning 'Chithear fiadh a snamh nan speur', c1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/76
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Fragment of a song beginning 'Chithear fiadh a snamh nan speur, As uisge sleibh a direadh' with an accompanying note which reads 'A girl who hanged herself on being jilted.' The song is composed of eight lines and contains one annotation in a different colour of ink.

Dates: c1892

Fragment of a song beginning 'Cnamh do chir chaor lom', 1901

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/20
Scope and Contents

Fragment of a song beginning 'Cnamh do chir chaor lom' probably collected on the Isle of Barra [Barraigh]. Only three lines of the song are given. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1901

Fragment of a song beginning 'Criosda an cathair ach', c1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/114
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Fragment of a song which reads 'Criosda an cathair ach, Diolaidh mi gach, S gu araid o fhuair e riasl[a]id' noted as by Dughall Liosadair.

Dates: c1892

Fragment of a song beginning 'Cuira bho mo duil foann' and accompanying note, 2 September 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/14
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Fragment of a song beginning 'Cuira bho mo duil foam, M' fheoil a laodh anns an uir anns an [uir]' and accompanying note which states that 'A Catrina Nic Chanunaich Pt Charrain had much of this song.' [Catherine Buchanan, Port a' Charrain, Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]

Dates: 2 September 1870

Fragment of a song beginning 'Daoin dubha, dan daoin ban bog', 16 September 1890

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/19
Scope and Contents

Fragment of a song which reads 'Daoin dubha, dan daoin ban bog, Daon donna dual donn rua rag'. Text has been scored through in pencil as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 16 September 1890

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Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille) 8
MacIsaac, Hector, c1797-1878 (Eachann mac Ruaraidh | joiner | Iochdar | South Uist) 8
MacRae, Mary, c1790-1879 (dairymaid) 8
Morrison, Kenneth, c1800-1864 (mason | Trien | Isle of Skye) 8
Boyd, Mary, c1844-1915 7
MacLean, Marion, 1843-1927 7
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Cameron, Duncan, c1818-1900 (police officer | Lochaline | Argyllshire) 6
Fraser, Marjory Kennedy-, 1857-1930 (singer, pianist, folk-song collector and arranger) 6
MacAulay, Margaret, 1821-1881 6
MacDonald, Ann, fl1901 (Achadoire | Gleann Spean | Lochaber) 6
MacNeil, Marion, 1843-1927 6
MacPherson, John, c1820-1885 (Iain Pearson | cottar | Kentangaval | Isle of Barra) 6
Campbell, Ann (nian Dhonil ic Iain Oig | composer of the song 'Ailean Duinn') 5
Livingston, Ann, c1800- (crofter | Airds Bay | Taynuilt | Argyllshire) 5
MacDonald, Donald, 1862- 5
MacDonald, Donald, fl1546 5
MacDonald, Duncan, c1785-1873 5
MacFarlane, Catherine, c1806-1880 5
MacInnes, Christina or Chirsty, c1807-1894 5
MacIntosh (of Moy) 5
MacIntosh, Catherine, c1807- 5
MacIntyre, Donald, c1793-1868 5
Clerk, Archibald, Rev, 1813-1887 (minister | Kilmallie | Inverness-shire) 4
Currie, Angus, c1787-1877 4
Ferguson, Mary, c1825-1909 (domestic servant | Cladach a' Bhaile Shear | North Uist) 4
Gunn, Angus, c1788-1875 (crofter) 4
Livingstone, Baron of Bachuil (Lismore) 4
MacDonald, Alexander, fl 1861 4
MacDonald, Hector, c1800-1879 4
MacDonald, Margaret, fl1870 (Mairead nighean Aonghais Duinn | Gearraidh Iain | North Uist | Inverness-shire) 4
MacDonald, Margaret, fl1870 (Malacleit | North Uist | Inverness-shire) 4
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MacInnes, Angus, c1800-1871 (Aonghas mac Aonghais | Smeircleit | South Uist) 4
MacIntosh, Margaret, c1828-1883 4
MacLellan, Penelope, 1796-1873 4
MacNeil, Alexander, c1787-1881 ([Alastair mac Ruari bhain MacNeill ]; fisherman | Kentangaval | Isle of Barra) 4
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MacInnes, Donald, c1800-1880 (crofter | Buail'-uachdrach | South Uist) 3
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MacNeil, Hector, c1825 3
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MacPhail, Donald, fl1884 (grocer | Quay | Oban | Argyllshire) 3
MacPherson, Dugald, c1700 3
MacQueen, Mor, c1778-1880 (or Marion | nurse | Taransay | Inverness-shire | Scotland) 3
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Morrison, Peter, c1800-1881 (crofter | Balivanich | Benbecula) 3
Stuart, Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, Prince, 1720-1788 ('Bonnie Prince Charlie' | 'The Young Pretender') 3
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MacDonald, Alexander, 1698-1768 2
MacDonald, Alexander, c1610-1647 (Alasdair mac Colla | military leader | Taigh an Trithinn | Argyllshire) 2
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