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Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1873

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW115
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael principally containing material collected on Eilean Leòdhais/ Isle of Lewis. The main informants were Angus Gunn and his daughter Ann MacDonald from Dail bho Thuath/North Dell and Dail bho Dheas/South Dell respectively, who sang songs relating to Christmas and explained associated customs. They also told Carmichael stories about the temples found around Nis/Ness and about St Ronan. In addition, the notebook contains notes on winter customs,...
Dates: 1873

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

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1883 to 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing material collected mostly in An Apainn/Appin and Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire. A large proportion of the stories and biographical information about Appin was collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, who was known as Dòmhnall a' Bhrocair. Amongst the material collected from Dòmhnall a' Bhrocair are proverbs, sayings, customs, stories about local figures and families and historic anecdotes. The other main...
Dates: 1883 to 1887

Fragment of a note, vocabulary and place-name notes, 10 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/68
Scope and Contents

Notes which read,' The St Kilda woman's buitseac[hd]. Starrag = A crow. Liabost, Lybster, Innoruige, Wick, Innorthorsai Thurso' [Liabost/Lybster, Inbhir Uige/Wick, Inbhir Theòrsa/Thurso, Gallaibh/Caithness].

Dates: 10 July 1870

Fragment of a verse entitled 'Cas eir Ulai', 20 November 1873

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/10
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Fragment of a verse entitled 'Cas eir Ulai' beginning 'Chi mi mo ghaol sa [Piarst] Bi an Ual agamsa noc[hd]'. Vocabulary note reads 'Bodach garst = scare-crow'. Text has been scored through in ink.

Dates: 20 November 1873

Fragmented notes about Calum Cille [St Columba] and the Easpaig [bishop], 12 September 1890

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/2
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Fragmented notes about Calum Cille [St Columba] and the Easpaig [bishop].

Dates: 12 September 1890

Gaelic vocabulary, 1891

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/128
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List of about 90 Gaelic words and phrases, a small number of which have their English equivalents. They are probably from Uist [Uibhist].

Dates: 1891

Geological note on Sgeir na bualta and accompanying vocabulary note, 8 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/32
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Geological note on Sgeir na bualta [Sgeir a' Bhuallt, Tarasaigh/Taransay] stating that 'Felspar is mixt with the gneis of the rock...It glances in the sun greatly - trying on the eyes'. The accompanying vocabulary note reads 'Ceasad = Cleith, Concealing'.

Dates: 8 July 1870

Hymn beginning 'Chruth[aich] Dia an duin an tus' and vocabulary note, 1901

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/103
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Hymn probably collected from Ann MacDonald, age 75, Achaderry, Glen Spean, Lochaber [Achadoire, Gleann Spean, Loch Abar, Siorramachd Inbhir Nis/Inverness-shire] beginning 'Chruth[aich] Dia an duin an tus, Gu staid bhean nan gras.' The song is composed of sixteen verses of four lines each.The vocabulary note, written transversely, reads 'shiollag = Glitter (bhiollag?)' and has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere. Beside verses four and five is written 'Modern'.

Dates: 1901

Hymn beginning 'Is gearr gus am bi chol sin' and vocabulary notes, 1901

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/104
Scope and Contents

Hymn probably collected from Ann MacDonald, age 75, Achaderry, Glen Spean, Lochaber [Achadoire, Gleann Spean, Loch Abar, Siorramachd Inbhir Nis/Inverness-shire] beginning 'Is gearr gus am bi chol sin, Air lothadh is air fail'. The song is composed of thirty lines mostly arranged in four line stanzas. Vocabulary notes indicate the word for 'limpid' and the word for 'shiny/shimmery'. The text has been scored through in pencil and in ink as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1901

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MacRury, John Ewen, c1853-1909 (Torlum | Benbecula) 29
Carmichael, Alexander, 1832-1912 (Excise officer | folklorist and antiquarian | Edinburgh | Scotland) 14
MacDonald (of Clanranald) 12
MacAulay, John, fl1887 (Iain | fisherman | Gairloch | Ross and Cromarty | and Edinburgh) 11
Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille) 7
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MacNeil (of Barra) 7
MacPhee, Donald, c1816-1869 7
Cameron, Duncan, c1818-1900 (police officer | Lochaline | Argyllshire) 6
Currie, Donald, c1826- (crofter | Islay) 6
MacDonald (of Sleat) 6
MacPhail, Donald, fl1884 (grocer | Quay | Oban | Argyllshire) 6
MacIsaac, Hector, c1797-1878 (Eachann mac Ruaraidh | joiner | Iochdar | South Uist) 5
MacLellan, Duncan, c1816-1893 5
MacLeod (of Dunvegan) 5
MacMhuirich (hereditary bards of Clanranald) 5
MacNeil, Roderick, c1790-1875 5
MacAulay, Angus, c1788-fl1870 (An Cnoc | Isle of Lewis | Ross and Cromarty | Scotland) 4
MacInnes, John, c1801-1894 4
MacIsaac, Janet, c1798-1882 4
MacRae, Mary, fl1903 4
Livingstone, Baron of Bachuil (Lismore) 3
MacDonald, Ann, fl1901 (Achadoire | Gleann Spean | Lochaber) 3
MacDonald, Flora, 1722-1790 (Jacobite) 3
MacIntosh, Catherine, c1807- 3
MacKay, Hugh, fl1393 (lieutenant to MacDonald of Islay | Rinns of Islay) 3
MacLean, Marion, 1843-1927 3
MacPherson, John, c1820-1885 (Iain Pearson | cottar | Kentangaval | Isle of Barra) 3
Northern Lighthouse Board. Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses (1786-) 3
Stewart (of Appin) 3
Boyd, Mary, c1844-1915 2
Bride, Saint, c453-525 (Kildare) 2
Campbell (Scalpay) 2
Campbell (of Argyll) 2
Campbell, Ann (nian Dhonil ic Iain Oig | composer of the song 'Ailean Duinn') 2
Campbell, James, c1806-1876 ('Seumas Chailein' | fisherman | Kentangaval | Isle of Barra) 2
Campbell, Margaret, c1871-1939 (or Stewart) 2
Carmichael (Appin) 2
Chisholm (travelling people) 2
Chrosda, Colla ([Guala] | seer | Bonawe | Argyllshire) 2
Clerk, Archibald, Rev, 1813-1887 (minister | Kilmallie | Inverness-shire) 2
Free Church of Scotland (1843-:) 2
Gunn, Angus, c1788-1875 (crofter) 2
MacAulay (of Brenish | Isle of Lewis) 2
MacAulay, Aulay, Rev, 1673-1758 (minister | Isle of Harris) 2
MacCodrum, Iain [John], c1693-1777 (Iain mac Fhearchair | Scottish Gaelic poet) 2
MacDonald (of Boisdale | South Uist) 2
MacDonald, Alexander, c1820-1894 2
MacDonald, Archibald, c1750-c1815 (Gille na Ciotaig | bard and satirist | Uist) 2
MacDonald, Hector, c1800-1879 2
MacDonald, Lord of the Isles 2
MacDonald, Mac Uisdean (proprietor or factor | Griminis | North Uist) 2
MacDonald, Margaret, fl1870 (Malacleit | North Uist | Inverness-shire) 2
MacDonald, Marshal of France | Duke of Tarentum, 1765-1840 2
MacFarlane, Catherine, c1806-1880 2
MacLean, Ciorstan, c1855-1937 2
MacLellan, Penelope, 1796-1873 2
MacLeod (of Berneray) 2
MacLeod (of Lewis) 2
MacMillan, Mary, c1825-1883 (domestic servant | Lionacuidhe | South Uist) 2
MacNeil, Hector, c1825 2
MacNiven, Duncan, 1804-1895 (Donnachadh Phadruig | schoolmaster | Airds | Taynuilt | Argyllshire) 2
MacPhie, Barbara, c1800-1880 (or MacPhee | pauper | Drimsdale | South Uist) 2
MacRae, Mary, c1790-1879 (dairymaid) 2
Morrison, Kenneth, c1800-1864 (mason | Trien | Isle of Skye) 2
Stewart, Mary, c1801-1877 2
Stuart, Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, Prince, 1720-1788 ('Bonnie Prince Charlie' | 'The Young Pretender') 2
Abercromby, Sir Ralph, 1734-1801 (lieutenant -general | politician | Menstrie | Clackmannanshire | Scotland) 1
Am Muilear Beag, fl1745 (miller | fought at Battle of Culloden | Inverfolla | Argyllshire) 1
Armstrong, Robert, 1817-1870 (photographer | Edinburgh) 1
Baleloch SSPCK School (-1801) 1
Beaton (or Paton | medical practitioners | South Uist) 1
Beaton, John, 1842-1924 (pauper | Badan Mhugaidh | Ross and Cromarty) 1
Black, John, c1784-1872 (pauper | probably Iain Ruadh or John Roy | Killean | Lismore | Argyllshire) 1
Board of Trade (1786-:) 1
Brendan, Saint (the Elder) 1
British Archaeological Association (1843-) 1
Cameron, Mary, 1829-1902 (pauper | Borve | Isle of Barra) 1
Cameron, Rev Alexander, 1827-1888 (Free Church Minister) 1
Cameron, Roderick, c1836-1919 (Ruairidh | fisherman | Carbost | Isle of Skye) 1
Campbell (of Airds) 1
Campbell (of Barcaldine) 1
Campbell (of Inverawe) 1
Campbell (of Islay) 1
Campbell (of Taransay) 1
Campbell, Andrew, c1867-1932 (tinker | Perthshire) 1
Campbell, Anthony, 1825-1904 (fisherman and crofter | Kentangaval | Barra) 1
Campbell, Archibald, -c1650 (fifth of Inverawe | Argyllshire) 1
Campbell, Colin, 1708-1752 ('Cailean Ruadh' | 'Cailean Uaine' | 'The Red Fox' | Cailean Ghlinn Iubhair | Glenure | Argyllshire) 1
Campbell, Cristiane, c1570 1
Campbell, Donald, Sir, -1651 (of Airds) 1
Campbell, Dougall, -c1579 (fourth of Inverawe | Argyllshire) 1
Campbell, John, -c1606 (Iain Dubh nan Creach | tutor of Inverawe | Argyllshire) 1
Campbell, Kenneth, Captain (of Uidh | Taransay | and Rodel | Isle of Harris) 1
Campbell, Robert, 1630-1696 (fifth of Glenlyon) 1
Carmichael (Taylochan | Lismore | Argyllshire) 1
Carmichael, Dugald, Captain, 1772-1827 1
Carmichael, Duncan, fl1870 (Lismore | Argyllshire) 1
Carmichael, Eon Kenneth, 1872-1926 ([Eoghan] | son of Alexander Carmichael folklorist and antiquarian) 1
Carmichael, Mary Frances, c1843-1928 1
Carmichael, Mary, c1812-1889 (Druimavuic | Glencreran | Argyllshire) 1
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