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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

Fragment of a story 'A Chromag Gabh mu n Cuairt', 1861

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/19
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Fragment of the story 'A Chromag Gabh mu n Cuairt' probably collected from Ruaridh Camshron [Roderick Cameron], Carbost [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. The text tells how the story of the man arriving at the giant's house and being hidden by the giant's wife. The full text of the story can be found at CW109/3 folio 6r.

Dates: 1861

Notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1856-1880

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW109
Scope and Contents Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael made up of three excise notebooks marked 'Journal', 'Account Current' and 'Bills Receivable'/'Bills Payable' and a single folio. The first book is marked on the front with 'Carbost June 13 1861 Alexander Carmichael' [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye].The second book is inscribed with the same text on the front cover and the inside front covers reads 'Alasdair A Mac 'Illemhicheil Cillendraisd, Liosmor' [Cill Anndrais/Killandrist, Lios...
Dates: 1856-1880

Poem beginning 'Nuair bha thu sa bhroinn chaothrian' and accompanying vocabulary, c1866

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW104/16
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Poem beginning 'Nuair bha thu sa bhroinn chaothrain, Bu fhreasdalach mi ga chobhair' [The Rowan Hostel]. The poem contains twenty-four lines and the vocabulary notes are for 'Meothail = Delight and 'Air dhealbh mhuic = Like hogs'.

Dates: c1866

Story about 'A bhraoin chaorain' [The Rowan Hostel], 3 April 1866

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW104/17
Scope and Contents Story about 'A bhraoin chaorain' [The Rowan Hostel]. Written transversely across the initial text is information about the informant from whom this story was collected it reads, 'Mairi Nic Aonais, Taigharry N Uist 3 April 1866 Chual ise so aig a h-athair brathair do "Ruarai Ruadh" an ceistear' [Màiri Nic Aonghais/Mary MacInnes, Tigh Ghearraidh/Tigharry Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist heard this from her father brother of Ruaraidh Ruadh the catechist]. The story tells how Fionn arrives at the...
Dates: 3 April 1866

Story about a fairy enchantment, 1867

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/29
Scope and Contents Story about a fairy enchantment telling how a man in Allasdal [Allathasdal/Allasdale, Barraigh/Isle of Barra], which was 'always famous for its fair[ies]' was pestered so much by a beautiful fairy woman whom he could not resist that he emigrated to America. He was advised to make sure that not a single belonging of his was left behind. Unfortunately, he left an 'old harrow in the back door of his kiln barn' and so the fairy was still able to trouble him. He wrote to family and friends on...
Dates: 1867

Story about Fenians and accompanying notes from the informant about story-telling, 24 April 1866

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW104/28
Scope and Contents Story about Art, a Fenian warrior, collected from Eachann Maciosaig [Hector MacIsaac], Iocar [Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist], who heard it from Ruari Rua [Roderick MacQuien, catechist] and accompanying notes from the informant about story-telling. Hector begins with the sloinneadh [patronymic] of Caramag mac Art. The story then relates how Art married Nighean Rìgh Lochlann but cheated on her. Rìgh Lochlann was very angry so he banished Art overseas. He went travelling...
Dates: 24 April 1866

Story about Fionn and the six servants and a vocabulary note, 1865

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/21
Scope and Contents Story about Fionn and the six servants probably continued from the story about Fionn and Gille Glas (Coll-97/CW113/14). Fionn was feeling very sad about Gille Glas, when an old man appeared and told Fionn that they would eat dinner together the next night and disappeared again. Fionn is very angry and insulted by this. Then he is approached by six different men each asking to be hired and so Fionn asks them what sort of work they are good at. The six men are in turn a good sea-captain,...
Dates: 1865

Story and song about a water-horse, 28 October 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/125
Scope and Contents Story and song collected from Mrs MacDonald, Gramasdall [Gramasdal/Gramsdale, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula] about a water horse. The story tells how a prince was under a spell and by night was a water-horse and by day a fairy. A farmer's daughter bore him a child, which had been conceived while she was asleep when she was tending cattle. She and her kin were very concerned about this and so she went to an old man for advice. He told her to hide the child by the cattle-fold. As she did this she...
Dates: 28 October 1870

Story entitled 'A Chromag a ghabh mu an Cuairt', 1861

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/3
Scope and Contents Story entitled 'A Chromag a ghabh mu an Cuairt' collected from Ruathraidh Camshron [Roderick Cameron], Carbost [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye] on 14 November 1860. This is a story about an old man, who does not get on with his wife and in order to prove to her that he is not useless goes off on a journey. He happens upon a giant's house and on receiving hospitality from the giant's wife and being hidden from the giant discovers that they own a magic tablecloth which with the...
Dates: 1861

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Cameron, Roderick, c1836-1919 (Ruairidh | fisherman | Carbost | Isle of Skye) 5
Morrison, Peter, c1800-1881 (crofter | Balivanich | Benbecula) 4
MacDonald (of Clanranald) 3
MacIsaac, Hector, c1797-1878 (Eachann mac Ruaraidh | joiner | Iochdar | South Uist) 3
MacPhee, Donald, 1784-1868 3
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MacPhee, Donald, fl 1861 (Isle of Skye |) 3
MacQueen, Donald, c1795-1885 ([Donull MacCuithein] | cottar | Fernilea | Isle of Skye) 3
MacQuien, Roderick, c1750-c1830 (catechist | Malaclete | North Uist) 3
MacDiarmaid, Duncan, c1846-1881 (shepherd and cook on barge | Fernilea, Isle of Skye and Glasgow) 2
MacInnes, John, c1801-1894 2
MacInnes, Mary, c1815-1903 (domestic servant | Tigharry | North Uist) 2
MacIsaac, Janet, c1798-1882 2
MacNeil, Alexander, c1787-1881 ([Alastair mac Ruari bhain MacNeill ]; fisherman | Kentangaval | Isle of Barra) 2
MacNeil, John, c1780-1875 (Iain Donn | crofter | Buaile nam Bodach | Isle of Barra) 2
MacRury, John Ewen, c1853-1909 (Torlum | Benbecula) 2
Urquhart, Robert, 1839-1928 (Inspector of Police | Alness | Ross and Cromarty) 2
Beaton, Angus, fl1861 (or Paton or Bethune | Bernisdale | Isle of Skye) 1
Campbell, Janet, c1816-1898 (midwife | Loch Sgioport | South Uist) 1
Campbell, John Francis, 1821-1885 (folklorist and polymath) 1
Carmichael (Appin) 1
Carmichael, Alexander, 1832-1912 (Excise officer | folklorist and antiquarian | Edinburgh | Scotland) 1
Carmichael, Dugald, Captain, 1772-1827 1
Clan Donald 1
Johnston, Donald, c1811-1880 1
MacDonald, Alexander, fl 1861 1
MacDonald, Hector, c1800-1879 1
MacDonald, Lachlan, c1838-1919 (cottar | Kallin | Grimsay | Inverness-shire) 1
MacDonald, Lachlan, fl1870 (Gramsdale | Benbecula | Inverness-shire) 1
MacDonald, Lord of the Isles 1
MacDonald, Mac Uisdean (proprietor or factor | Griminis | North Uist) 1
MacDonald, Mrs, fl1870 (Gramasdal | Benbecula | Inverness-shire | Scotland) 1
MacDougall, Donald, c1850-1893 1
MacEachan, Neil, c1802-1893 (crofter | Howbeg | South Uist) 1
MacInnes, Angus, c1800-1871 (Aonghas mac Aonghais | Smeircleit | South Uist) 1
MacInnes, Archibald, c1850 (Gilleasbuig mac Aoghnais | Airigh-mhuillinn | South Uist) 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, c1821- (Sailor | Isle of Coll) 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
MacLellan, Duncan, c1816-1893 1
MacLeod (of Lewis) 1
MacMhuirich (hereditary bards of Clanranald) 1
MacQuien, Catherine, c1799-1870 ([Catrina NicCuithein] | Clachan na Luib, North Uist ) 1
MacQuien, Christina, c1797-1883 (or MacQueen | domestic servant | Fernilea | Isle of Skye) 1
MacRae (Kintail) 1
Morrison 1
Morrison, Kenneth, c1800-1864 (mason | Trien | Isle of Skye) 1
Nicolson, Magnus, c1845-1909 ([Manus MacNeacail] | postman | Fernilea, Isle of Skye and Glasgow) 1
Odar (Lochlannach | Viking warrior | beheaded in North Uist) 1
Ross, William, 1762-1791 (Poet) 1
Torlum Primary School. Mrs Gordon's Industrial School (c1868-1989) 1
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