Story about 'Alast[air] mor nam marst' of Boisdale, 17 January 1874
Scope and Contents
Story about 'Alast[air] mor nam marst' of Boisdale [Baghasdal, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] probably collected from Duncan MacLellan, clachair [mason], Càrnan/Carnan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist, telling how he was so small when he was born that it was difficult to deliver him but when he grew up he 'was as big as two men'. The story also tells how Alasdair was 'the first of the Boisdales' and that two of 'Bois[dale's] lads' dug up a boat that had been 'sunk in a hole between Boi[dale] and Killphead[air] at Cnoch nam Mallach'. [Cille pheadair/Kilpheder, Cnoc nam Mallach]
Dates
- Creation: 17 January 1874
Language of Materials
English Gaelic
Conditions Governing Access
This material is unrestricted.
Extent
From the Series: 93 folios ; 20.5 x 13.2 cm
Physical Location
5.07
Physical Location
folio 10v, line 19 to folio 11r, line 6
Bibliography
- Archaeology
- Biography
- Boats
- Boisdale South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Childbirth
- Cnoc nam Mallach Boisdale (parish) South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Family History
- Kilpheder South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- South Uist Howmore Inverness-shire Scotland
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Tales
Subject
- MacDonald, Alexander, 1698-1768 (Person)
- MacLellan, Duncan, c1816-1893 (Person)
- MacDonald (of Boisdale | South Uist) (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
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