Story about fishing on Ìle/Islay and Calum Cille [St Columba], June 1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/49
Scope and Contents
Story about fishing on Ìle/Islay collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Baile Meadhanach/Ballymeanach, there that fishing would take place at Oin Hailigeo [Abhainn Shailigeo/Saligo River] or Loch Gruinart and that once a man caught a losgain [frog or toad] and gave it to Calum Cille [St Columba], who made a curse that every salmon would face out to sea and none would return. The story concludes that the lake used to be full of salmon.
Dates
- Creation: June 1887
Language of Materials
English Gaelic
Conditions Governing Access
This material is unrestricted.
Extent
From the Series: 53 folios ; 17.2 x 10.5 cm
Physical Location
5.07
Physical Location
folio 12r, line 6 to folio 12r, line 17
Subject
- Currie, Donald, c1826- (crofter | Islay) (Person)
- Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille) (Person)
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
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Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk