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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

Incomplete story about duns and Lochlannaich [Vikings], 1867

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/47

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Incomplete story about duns and Lochlannaich [Vikings] describing how the people in Dùn Mhiùghlaigh [Miùghlaigh/Mingulay] were throwing arrows at the people on Githarum [Gèarum Mòr] and the Lochlannaich so that they had to move to Dùn Bhriste [Beàrnaraigh/Berneray] but the Miùghlaigh people attacked them again and they had to move further and further north to get away from them. The incomplete part of the story begins to tell about the arrival of a Lochlannaich vessel with wood.

Dates: 1867

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about the MacAulays of Lewis, 29 August 1868

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/7

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Note collected from Angus MacAulay, aged 82, An Cnoc/Knock, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis which states that the MacLeods of Lewis had the island first and that they were always feuding and raiding with the Morrisons.

Dates: 29 August 1868

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about the sister of Tormod mac Uilleam Buidhe, November 1873

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/6

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Note about the sister of Tormod mac Uilleam Buidhe which reads '[-] Macdonald sist[er] of Torm[od] mac Uilleam Buidhe [Barra find] her out + [write] Donald Macrae Oban.' [Barraigh/Isle of Barra, Inverness-shrie and An t-Òban, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].

Dates: November 1873

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about Tunga and native Barra people, 24 September 1972

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/97

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Note about Tunga stating that it was built of masonry and that the MacNeils killed 'all the natives' [of Barraigh/Isle of Barra]. The last of these people was a man called Gillios who 'had the nature of the sitheachs & used to run into the holes like rabbits'.

Dates: 24 September 1972

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Place-name note about Bàgh Chlann Neill and accompanying story fragment, 13 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/89

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Place-name note about Bàgh Chlann Neill, that it is at Losaid at Bun at Sruth Obe [Rubh' an Losaid, An Struth, An t-Ob/Leverburgh, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] and accompanying story fragment which reads 'Some MacNeills lived here & when they com[menced] a creach they ran away & took their boat to le'.

Dates: 13 July 1870

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Quote from a Lismore woman living in Kingussie, August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/49

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Quote, probably collected from Christina Campbell née Macintyre, Lios Mòr/Lismore Earra, Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, from a Lismore woman described as magnificent looking, who lived in Kingussie [Ceann a' Ghiuthsaich, Siorramachd Inbhir Nis/Inverness-shire] from a quarrel she had with another woman. The quote reads 'Gu de is urrainn daibh a gh rath rium ach gun toil liom na fir – mu’s toil is toil leis na fir mi!'

Dates: August 1883

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Song beginning 'Gu faod nar Fr. mo [cham] sin inse', accompanying story and quotation, 11 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/73

Scope and Contents Song beginning 'Gu faod nar Fr. mo [cham] sin inse, Mun ghabh iad am ort us tu nad aide' which is composed of eighteen lines. The accompanying story tells how Iain Og Mharaig, son of Iain Sheilebost [Iain Òg Mhàraig/Young John of Màraig son of John of Seilebost, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris], shot and killed raiders [possibly French raiders]. Carmichael notes that Rev [Aulay] MacAulay said 'Gheo thus lair anns am bi earbal' on hearing 'this panegyric'. On both folios written transversely across...

Dates: 11 July 1870

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Song beginning 'Hu ru o na hi oro' and accompanying story, 21 May 1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/11

Scope and Contents Song collected from Donald MacPhee, blacksmith, Brèibhig/Breivig, Barraigh/Isle of Barra, beginning 'Hu ru o na hi oro, Na nam faite Seathain ri fhuasgla[dh]' [Seathan Mac Rìgh Èireann] composed of fifteen lines. The story tells how the song was composed by an aunt of MacLeod of Harris to MacNeill Dhun an t-Sleibh [Dùn an t-Sleibh, Barraigh/Isle of Barra], her husband. She alleged that a priest had tried to take advantage of her in the confessional the response to which was that the priest...

Dates: 21 May 1869

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Song entitled 'Comhairle Fhinn air Oscar' and accompanying notes, c1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/76

Scope and Contents Song entitled 'Comhairle Fhinn air Oscar' collected from Eachun MacCiseig [Hector MacIsaac, joiner, Àird Mhòr, Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] beginning 'A mhic mo mhic 's e thuirt a Righ, Oscair a righ nan ard ghlath'. The song is composed of eighteen lines and has an annotation in pencil. The background to the song is given telling how Fionn expected to hand over his kingdom to Oscar, when he died if he killed Caibre Ruadh an Eirinn. The comhairle or conversation takes place after a...

Dates: c1875

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 15 July 1870 to 19 October 1871

Incomplete story about duns and Lochlannaich [Vikings], 1867

Note about the MacAulays of Lewis, 29 August 1868

Note about the sister of Tormod mac Uilleam Buidhe, November 1873

Note about Tunga and native Barra people, 24 September 1972

Place-name note about Bàgh Chlann Neill and accompanying story fragment, 13 July 1870

Quote from a Lismore woman living in Kingussie, August 1883

Song beginning 'Gu faod nar Fr. mo [cham] sin inse', accompanying story and quotation, 11 July 1870

Song beginning 'Hu ru o na hi oro' and accompanying story, 21 May 1869

Song entitled 'Comhairle Fhinn air Oscar' and accompanying notes, c1875

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