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Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89

Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael probably while he lived at 31, Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, as this address is written in ink on the first folio. Written on the inside front cover but heavily scored is text which reads 'Mrs Malcolm MacLeod, [- Islay], widow of Mal[colm] MacLeod [Loch-]. The majority of the notebook contains material collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/ Islay relating folklore and natural history about the birds, fish, shellfish and animals found in and...

Dates: 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Genealogical note about descendants of Righ Lochlann, October 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/129

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Genealogical note about descendants of Righ Lochlann, probably collected in Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist, listing various clans from 'Auladh dearg Mac Ri[gh] Lochlain' to Clann ic Ruiry who were descended from 'one of the 20 men soldiers who came with Tochra ni[ghea]n a Chaanaich'.

Dates: October 1870

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Genealogical notes on the Livingstone family including a story from the Battle of Culloden, October 1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/68

Scope and Contents Genealogical notes on the Livingstone family including a story from the Battle of Culloden Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire. The notes include that Donald Livingstone, fought at the Battle of Culloden aged eighteen, where nine of his men were shot carrying the Prince's flag. He took the flag and 'swathed [it] round his body. He was shot down and was thought to be dead but he got up with nine bullet wounds - flesh wounds which were seen in his body when he died aged 79 or 80 years old'. There are...

Dates: October 1892

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Legend about the wren and the Irish army, 4 June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/6

Scope and Contents Legend about the dreolan or wren and the Irish army that when the English were asleep and the Irish were about to attack them during the night [at the Battle of the Boyne] the wren began eating crumbs on the drummer's head, waking him up and allowing him to alert the English to the attack. Consequently, 'the irish take a day in the year to kill the Dreathan (wren (St Pat[rick]?)' [referring to Wren Day or St Stephen's Day, 26 December]. Text has been scored through in pencil perhaps to...

Dates: 4 June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about Fear Achnacrois, August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/42

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A note probably collected from Christina Campbell née Macintyre, Lios Mòr/Lismore Earra, Ghàidheal/Argyllshire that Fear Achnacrois brought Irish workers over from Ireland to work lint on Lismore [Lios Mòr] and that this man was a relation of Alexander Carmichael's.

Dates: August 1883

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about Iona and Saint Columba, 1886

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/313

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Note which reads "Hebraice dictur Iona" Adam[nan] Saint Columba left Ireland of his own accord - Scotia is not Scot[land] even tho[ugh] of old Ireland so Ui is now island'.

Dates: 1886

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about the first men on Lismore to own a vessel, August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/54

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Note probably collected from Christina Campbell née Macintyre, Lios Mòr/Lismore Earra, Ghàidheal/Argyllshire that the first two men on Lismore [Lios Mòr] to have a vessel used to trade to Ireland. They married there and had children which came to Lismore and Glasgow [Glaschu].

Dates: August 1883

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes about a purchase and vocabulary, 23 March 1877

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/23

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Note probably collected from Anthony Campbell, Kentangval [Ceann Tangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Barra] about a purchase made by James MacNeill mac Ghilleaspaig Neill in Ireland. Also, Gaelic names for turbot and halibut, which have been scored out.

Dates: 23 March 1877

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notes about fish, shellfish and crustaceans, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/88

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Notes about fish, shellfish and crustaceans collected on Ìle/Islay, including that 'Abhain Chul Davach Co[unty] Donegal [is] paved with siolag.' and listing differnt types of fish and their English name equivalent. Also notes that 'Long shells - fan-like got off Coll on one bank. On House Bank - 11 in[ches] long.' Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Poem entitled 'A Mhuillearstach' and accompanying notes, 20 October 1871

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW119/33

Scope and Contents Poem entitled 'A Mhuillearstach' collected from Donald Maclellan or Donl mac Iain bhain ic Neil, aged 84 years S[outh] Hacleit, Benbecula, S[out] Uist [Haclait/Hacklet, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] beginning ''S la dha'n Fheinn eir Tullach Eirinn, 'S i g amharc Eirinn ma timicheall'. The song is composed of two hundred and four lines, two of which have been written in pencil transversely, probably after the whole text had been written. A preamble to the story is...

Dates: 20 October 1871

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887

Genealogical note about descendants of Righ Lochlann, October 1870

Genealogical notes on the Livingstone family including a story from the Battle of Culloden, October 1892

Legend about the wren and the Irish army, 4 June 1887

Note about Fear Achnacrois, August 1883

Note about Iona and Saint Columba, 1886

Note about the first men on Lismore to own a vessel, August 1883

Notes about a purchase and vocabulary, 23 March 1877

Notes about fish, shellfish and crustaceans, June 1887

Poem entitled 'A Mhuillearstach' and accompanying notes, 20 October 1871

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