Song entitled 'Taigh Mor Thunga' and accompanying note, 22 May 1871

Song entitled 'Taigh Mor Thunga' collected from Roderick MacNeill also known as 'Ruarai mac Dhonuil' or 'Ruarai an ruma' (on account of a hogshead of rum he found on the shore 'from the contents of which he nearly died'), Miuleidh [Miùghlaigh/Mingulay]. The song begins 'Gu m beannaicheadh Dia Taigh mor Thunga, 'S fhad o chualas'. Carmichael notes 'Ruarai heard this poem from his father who heard it in America where he had been as leine-chneis with Macneill of Barra during the America War' and that both men survived to return to Barra and tell tales of their time there 'many of these which he [Ruarai] narrated very circumstantially'. The text appears to be incomplete and Carmichael has a number of words marked with question marks.