Story about the Battle of Sheriffmuir, c1866
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW104/10
Scope and Contents
Story about the Battle of Sheriffmuir probably collected from Alexander MacKenzie, Uisgeabhagh/Uiskevagh, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula, telling how at the battle, horses came amongst the Gaels and scattered them. Fear Leitir-iù [a MacKenzie] and Iain MacConnich [John MacKenzie], the informant's maternal grandfather, were up against five troops and so Fear Leitir-iù told John to go back to back with him and in that way they managed to kill the five soldiers with their swords.
Dates
- Creation: c1866
Language of Materials
Gaelic
Conditions Governing Access
This material is unrestricted.
Extent
From the Series: 91 folios ; 20 x 16.5 cm
Physical Location
5.07
Physical Location
folio 35r, line 8 to folio 35r, line 17
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland
- Family History
- Jacobites
- Letterewe Gairloch (parish) Ross and Cromarty Scotland
- Ross and Cromarty Scotland
- Sheriffmuir Dunblane and Lecropt (parish) Stirlingshire Scotland
- Sheriffmuir, Battle of | Scotland | 1715
- Soldiers
- Stirlingshire Scotland
- Tales
- Uisgebhagh Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland
- War
Subject
- MacKenzie, Murdoch, c1685-c1750 (Person)
- MacKenzie, Alexander, c1799- (Alasdair MacCoinnich | farmer | Uisgebhagh | Benbecula) (Person)
- MacKenzie, John, fl1715 (Jacobite | veteran of Battle of Sheriffmuir | Gairloch | Ross and Cromarty) (Person)
- MacKenzie (Letterewe) (Family)
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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Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk