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Fenian story about the 'Gille Glas', c1865

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/14
Scope and Contents

Fenian story collected from Alexander Urquhart, manager to Alexander MacRae, known as Fear Huisnis, probably at Abhainnsuidhe, Harris [Huisnis/Huishnish, Na Hearadh]. The story includes an aside about a type of pine candle once used throughout the Highlands and remembered by the reciter.

Dates: c1865
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Field and transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1864-1867

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW113
Scope and Contents Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing field and transcribed material. The notebook is inscribed on the front inside cover with the following: 'Scrap Book MS No1 Alex[ander] Carmichael (of Lismore) Inland Revenue Lochmaddy N[orth] Uist] 1864'. On the recto side of the fly leaf is written 'Angus MacDonald Staoinebrig tale teller' and on the verso side of the fly leaf is written 'Bought at Drew's Saint columb Cornwall this 17 day of Nov[ember] 1864 A. A. Carmichael p2/3'....
Dates: 1864-1867
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1864 to

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, noted as being 'Bought at St Columb, Cornwall, 30 Nov[ember] 1864 pr[ice] 2/3'. The back inside cover contains a note probably collected as part of excise duties which reads 'Rod[erick] MacPhie Mast of boat 21.8 [-] 1.2½ [-]'. The notebook contains one insertion. The majority of the notebook contains lore relating to Miùlaigh/Mingulay mostly collected from Roderick MacNeil, crofter, aged 88, known as Ruairidh an Rùma. Roderick MacNeil also...
Dates: 1864 to
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1864-1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW105
Scope and Contents

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing proverbs; Fenian tales; stories about shipwrecks; Roderick Morison 'An Clàrsair Dall' and his father John Morison tacksman of Bragar; the Beaton family; and about sea-faring; notes about islands in the Sound of Harris; and a small amount of vocabulary.

Dates: 1864-1869
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1864-1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW107
Scope and Contents

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing an essay entitled 'Bards and Bardism of the Highlands'; some notes on archaeology in Barra [Barraigh], Vatersay [Bhatarsaigh] and Sandray [Sanndraigh]; Fenian songs and poems; songs and poems relating to the MacDonalds; and a story entitled 'Prince Charlie's Pipe' mostly collected from South Uist [Uibhist a Deas] and Benbecula [Beinn na Faoghla].

Dates: 1864-1869
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Fragment of a song beginning 'Laogha Na Biast Bui nach gun taoghadh raoghadh gun dui'ai', November 1873

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/7
Scope and Contents

Fragment of a song beginning 'Laogha Na Biast Bui nach gun taoghadh raoghadh gun dui'ai'. This appears to be from Laoidh Mhuileartaich or the Lay of the Muileartach.

Dates: November 1873
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Fragment of a song entitled 'Laoidh Dhiarmaid', c1862

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/67
Scope and Contents Fragment of a song entitled 'Laoidh Dhiarmaid' [Lay of Diarmaid] collected from Donull Camashron [Donald Cameron], Coill-othar 'Clar-Sgiath' [Coille Odhar/Coillore, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. The song begins 'Eisdibh mus ail leibh laoidh, Air a mhuinntir a dh'fhalbh uainn' and is composed of twenty-four lines. Annotations to the text have been made in pencil. The song is the beginning of the story in which Diarmaid, after having eloped with Grainne, Fionn's wife, goes boar...
Dates: c1862
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Fragment of 'L[aoidh] Muilleartaich, '1866

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW104/15
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Fragment of L[aoidh] Muilleartaich [Laoidh Muileartach] beginning 'Bha e mar illibhinn aillibhinn chreag, Mar streadharnan ainibheasach thugain'. The song is composed of two verses of four lines each and was written first in pencil and then written over in ink.

Dates: '1866
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Fragment of the poem 'A Mhuilearteach Bhuide' [The Yellow Muilearteach], c1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/171
Scope and Contents

Fragment of the poem 'A Mhuilearteach Bhuide' [The Yellow Muilearteach] beginning 'os cionn a crannaig Bha 9 slaie saiste sios'. The verses correlate approximately with the final verses given in John Francis Campbell's Popular Tales of the West Highlands, vol 3. Carmichael notes that the informant 'Heard this fr[om] his fath[er] (Iain ban mac Neil Mac Gilliallain[)]'.

Dates: c1872
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Fragments of stories about Cuchulainn and accompanying verse, 13 September 1873

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW105/15
Scope and Contents

Fragments of stories about Cuchulainn collected from Coinneach MacThasgail [Kenneth MacAskill], Caolas Scalpey [Caolas Scalpaigh/Kyles Scalpay, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris]. The verse begins ' 'S olc a [thuig] tusa bhuamsa, [Aoin uasail anameirich]'. The verse is composed of five lines and precedes the stories. The fragments include the story of the death of Conlaich and Nighean an Laobhaire.

Dates: 13 September 1873
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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MacDonald, Alexander, fl 1861 6
MacQuien, Catherine, c1799-1870 ([Catrina NicCuithein] | Clachan na Luib, North Uist ) 6
MacQuien, Roderick, c1750-c1830 (catechist | Malaclete | North Uist) 6
MacDonald (of Clanranald) 5
MacIsaac, Hector, c1797-1878 (Eachann mac Ruaraidh | joiner | Iochdar | South Uist) 5
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MacIntyre, Donald, c1793-1868 3
MacIsaac, Janet, c1798-1882 3
Morrison, Kenneth, c1800-1864 (mason | Trien | Isle of Skye) 3
Morrison, Peter, c1800-1881 (crofter | Balivanich | Benbecula) 3
Carmichael, Alexander, 1832-1912 (Excise officer | folklorist and antiquarian | Edinburgh | Scotland) 2
Clan Donald 2
Clerk, Archibald, Rev, 1813-1887 (minister | Kilmallie | Inverness-shire) 2
MacDonald, Donald, 1862- 2
MacDonald, Duncan, c1785-1873 2
MacDonald, John, fl1865 (Locheport | North Uist) 2
MacInnes, Mary, c1815-1903 (domestic servant | Tigharry | North Uist) 2
MacNeil (of Barra) 2
MacNeil, Alexander, c1787-1881 ([Alastair mac Ruari bhain MacNeill ]; fisherman | Kentangaval | Isle of Barra) 2
MacPhee, Donald, c1816-1869 2
Smith, Peter [Patrick], c1796-1877 2
Arca Dearg 1
Board of Trade (1786-:) 1
Cameron, Donald, c1800-1862 (Coillore | Isle of Skye) 1
Cameron, Roderick, c1836-1919 (Ruairidh | fisherman | Carbost | Isle of Skye) 1
Carmichael (Appin) 1
Carmichael, Dugald, Captain, 1772-1827 1
Chisholm (travelling people) 1
Chisholm, Isabel, fl1869 (traveller | temporarily in North Uist) 1
Church of Scotland 1
Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille) 1
Free Church of Scotland (1843-:) 1
Lloyd's Register Group. Lloyd's Register of Shipping (1760-) 1
MacAskill, Kenneth, fl1794-1884 (crofter) 1
MacAulay, Margaret, 1821-1881 1
MacDiarmaid, Duncan, c1846-1881 (shepherd and cook on barge | Fernilea, Isle of Skye and Glasgow) 1
MacDonald (of Sleat) 1
MacDonald, Alexander, c1820-1894 1
MacDonald, Hector, c1800-1879 1
MacDonald, Lachlan, c1838-1919 (cottar | Kallin | Grimsay | Inverness-shire) 1
MacDonald, Lord of the Isles 1
MacDonald, Mac Uisdean (proprietor or factor | Griminis | North Uist) 1
MacDonald, Sir James, 1741-1766 (8th of Sleat | Marcellus of the North | Seumas Ruadh) 1
MacInnes, Angus, c1800-1871 (Aonghas mac Aonghais | Smeircleit | South Uist) 1
MacInnes, John, c1747-c1837 1
MacInnes, John, c1801-1894 1
MacKeegan (or MacIogain | North Uist) 1
MacKenzie (Letterewe) 1
MacKenzie (of Kintail) 1
MacKenzie, Alexander, c1799- (Alasdair MacCoinnich | farmer | Uisgebhagh | Benbecula) 1
MacKenzie, John, fl1866 (Iain MacCoinnich | Uisgebhagh | Benbecula) 1
MacKenzie, Mary, c1771-c1855 (farmer's wife | muse of the poet William Ross | Gairloch | Ross and Cromarty) 1
MacLean, Marion, 1843-1927 1
MacLellan, Duncan, c1816-1893 1
MacLellan, John 1
MacLeod (of Lewis) 1
MacMhuirich (hereditary bards of Clanranald) 1
MacMillan, Mary, c1825-1883 (domestic servant | Lionacuidhe | South Uist) 1
MacNeil, Hector, c1825 1
MacNeil, Roderick, c1790-1875 1
MacPhee, Donald, 1784-1868 1
MacPhee, Donald, fl 1861 (Isle of Skye |) 1
MacPherson, John, c1820-1885 (Iain Pearson | cottar | Kentangaval | Isle of Barra) 1
MacQueen, Donald, c1795-1885 ([Donull MacCuithein] | cottar | Fernilea | Isle of Skye) 1
MacQuien, Christina, c1797-1883 (or MacQueen | domestic servant | Fernilea | Isle of Skye) 1
MacRae (Kintail) 1
Maclean (of Duart) 1
Morison, John, fl1630-1708 (tacksman | Bragar | Isle of Lewis) 1
Morison, Roderick, fl1656-1714 1
Morrison 1
Nic an Lias, Eifrig, c1850 ([Euphemia Gilles?] | spinster | Isle of Barra) 1
Odar (Lochlannach | Viking warrior | beheaded in North Uist) 1
Paton, John, 1787-1877 1
Ross, William, 1762-1791 (Poet) 1
Smith, John, fl1865 (builder | Boisdale | South Uist) 1
Stewart, John, c1786-1867 (tenant | Baleshare | North Uist) 1
Stuart, Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, Prince, 1720-1788 ('Bonnie Prince Charlie' | 'The Young Pretender') 1
Urquhart, Alexander, 1821- (shepherd | Abhainnsuidhe | Isle of Harris) 1
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