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Illegible items possibly containing quotations, vocabulary and etymology, c1893

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/51

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Illegible items possibly containing quotations, vocabulary and etymology.

Dates: c1893

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Incomplete story entitled 'Niean Gobha Ghriminis', 20 October 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/123

Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Ni[gh]ean Gobha Ghriminis' collected from Donacha MacanLeallain [Duncan MacLellan], mason and crofter, Carnan, Iocar [Càrnan, Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. The story tells how a blacksmith in 'Grim[inis] sa Cheanna tua' [Griminish, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] was a good man with no family but a daughter. He had cattle on Beinn Lee [Beinn Lì] and one winter when the snow came he sent his cow-herd off to fetch his cattle. The cow-herd got all the cattle except the...

Dates: 20 October 1870

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Incomplete vocabulary note for 'Ainich', February 1874

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/56

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Incomplete vocabulary note for 'Ainich'.

Dates: February 1874

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Incomplete vocabulary note which reads 'Air la tharsan =, A ghios an t saoghail', June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/186

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Incomplete vocabulary note which reads 'Air la tharsan =, A ghios an t saoghail'.

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

List of fifteen placenames in Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist, c1865

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/43

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List of fifteen placenames in Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist including Colstrum, Minish, Sgealltraval and Mairivall [Collastrome, Midhinis, Sgealtrabhal/Skealtraval and Maireabhal/Marrival].

Dates: c1865

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

List of fish names and note about the fish 'siolag-ghobach' [sand-eel], June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/72

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List of fish names and note about the fish 'siolag-ghobach' [sand-eel] probably collected on Ìle/Islay noting that the sand-eel is 'as large ling - 9 in[ches] in gob of this one - blue - not eaten - not in sand'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

List of names and place-names connected with birds and a saying, 9 June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/99

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List written on Giodha [Giogha/Gigha, Earra Ghaidheal/Argyllshire] of bird names and place-names there and in Cinn Tìre/Kintyre connected with birds and a saying which reads 'Posadh thar beinn 's goisteac thar fo lingeara' and explaining 'Lingearac' as 'Midden'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 9 June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

List of names of birds, 24 June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/140

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List of names of birds collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann including 'An Golcach = Puffin'; 'Deardain = Tern' in An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye; and 'uiseag na traighe = a Bhothag - lives on wilks'.

Dates: 24 June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

List of names of fish and shellfish, August 1903

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/22

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List of names of fish and shellfish probably collected on the Barraigh/Isle of Barra including 'Deanadh maorach - App[lies] to the limpet only - Musgan or Coilleag-Struban = Cailleach (Kintire)' [Cinn Tìre/Kintyre]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: August 1903

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

List of proverbs, c1873

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW105/17

Scope and Contents List of proverbs written in ink and annotated in pencil. A note on folio 82v pertains to this substantial list and reads 'All the preceding sent to Sheriff Nicolson Kirkcudbright 2 Sept[ember] 1873 A[lexander]. A[rchibald]. C[armichael].'. Two notes appear on folio 91v and 92r written in pencil, in the opposite direction to the rest of the text, unconnected with the proverbs. They are as follows: ' [-] Bhothigh = Banks fishing bank' and 'Miss Rose - Robert Armstrong Photo[grapher] 63 Princes...

Dates: c1873

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Illegible items possibly containing quotations, vocabulary and etymology, c1893

Incomplete story entitled 'Niean Gobha Ghriminis', 20 October 1870

Incomplete vocabulary note for 'Ainich', February 1874

Incomplete vocabulary note which reads 'Air la tharsan =, A ghios an t saoghail', June 1887

List of fifteen placenames in Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist, c1865

List of fish names and note about the fish 'siolag-ghobach' [sand-eel], June 1887

List of names and place-names connected with birds and a saying, 9 June 1887

List of names of birds, 24 June 1887

List of names of fish and shellfish, August 1903

List of proverbs, c1873

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