Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, c1868 to 16 June 1876
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing primarily songs and stories collected in Miùghlaigh/Mingulay, Barraigh/Barra, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist and Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis. The main informants are Roderick MacNeil or Ruairidh an Rùma from Mingulay and Penelope MacLellan of Ormacleit/Ormaclete. The bulk of the material from MacNeil relates to the southernmost islands of the Hebrides and covers topics such as bird-fowling, the island way of life, place-names, archaeological sites and saints connected to the islands. MacLellan recounts a considerable amount of family history relating to her own and Flora MacDonald's family to whom she is related. Several versions of 'Seathan Mac Rìgh Èireann' and Taladh Dòmhnall Ghorm Shlèibhte' are collected in this notebook along with other waulking songs and love songs. There are also fairy stories and fairy songs. The notes include some taken on a trip to the Isle of Lewis, in which Angus MacAulay of An Cnoc/Knock tells stories about the settlement and settlers of the island in the seventeenth century. Of the 62 folios in this volume, the first is a loose leaf and the final five are blank. Many of the items have been scored through in ink and recorded as having been transcribed into Book 3 or Book 2 in June 1869.
Dates
- c1868 to 16 June 1876
Language of Materials
Gaelic,English
Conditions Governing Access
This material is unrestricted.
Extent
64 folios ; 17 x 20.3 cm
Physical Location
5.07
Existence and Location of Copies
Microfilm: Mic.Dup.1148/2
- An Cnoc Stornoway (parish) Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland
- Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland
- Biography
- Birds
- Boyd, Mary, c1844-1915
- Cairinis North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Catholic Church. Roman Catholic Church (c100-)
- Cemeteries
- Church Buildings
- Creagorry Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland
- Customs
- Death
- Drowning
- Fairies
- Family
- Family History
- Ferguson, Mary, c1825-1909 (domestic servant | Cladach a' Bhaile Shear | North Uist)
- Fishing
- Food
- Gearraidh Iain North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Geography
- Gleann Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland
- Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland
- Laments
- Landowners
- Language
- Lionacuidhe South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Love
- Lullabies
- MacAulay, Angus, c1788-fl1870 (An Cnoc | Isle of Lewis | Ross and Cromarty | Scotland)
- MacDonald (Milton | South Uist)
- MacDonald (of Clanranald)
- MacDonald (of Sleat)
- MacDonald, Donald, -c1650
- MacDonald, Donald, fl1546
- MacDonald, Flora, 1722-1790 (Jacobite)
- MacDonald, Margaret, fl1870 (Malacleit | North Uist | Inverness-shire)
- MacInnes, Christina or Chirsty, c1807-1894
- MacIntosh, Margaret, c1828-1883
- MacLellan, Duncan, c1816-1893
- MacLellan, Penelope, 1796-1873
- MacLeod (of Lewis)
- MacMhuirich (hereditary bards of Clanranald)
- MacMillan, Mary, c1825-1883 (domestic servant | Lionacuidhe | South Uist)
- MacNeil (of Barra)
- MacNeil, Marion, 1843-1927
- MacNeil, Roderick, c1790-1875
- MacPhee, Ann, 1847-1905 (or Ann MacKinnon | wife of Archibald MacKinnon, crofter | Carnan | South Uist)
- MacPhee, Donald, c1816-1869
- Malaclete North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Marriage
- Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Ormacleit South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Placenames
- Plants
- Poems
- Protection
- Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment). Royal Regiment of Foot (1633?2006)
- Saints
- Sayings
- Seathain | mac Rìgh Èirinn
- Songs
- South Uist Howmore Inverness-shire Scotland
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Stuart, Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, Prince, 1720-1788 ('Bonnie Prince Charlie' | 'The Young Pretender')
- Tales
- Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Vocabulary
- Voyages and Travel
- Warriors
- Waulking songs
- Wheeler and Wilson Manufacturing Company. Wheeler and Wilson Company (1852-1907)
- Wylie, John, c1600 (Fife settler | Stornoway | Isle of Lewis | Ross and Cromarty | Scotland)
Creator
- From the Fonds: Carmichael, Alexander, 1832-1912 (Excise officer | folklorist and antiquarian | Edinburgh | Scotland) (Person)
- From the Fonds: Watson, William John, 1865-1948 (Professor of Celtic) (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
Contact:
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Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk
Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk