Notes on the population of Tarasaigh/Taransay, 8 July 1870
Scope and Contents
Notes on the population of Tarasiagh/Taransay, stating that Paible is the inhabited part and Rath the north township 'but no people now', that 'Aird-Mhanuis' [Àird Mhànais] is an island at high spring tides, and that good families came from Taransay including that of Cap[tain] Ken[neth] Campbell 'mac Alast[air] ic Coinnich ic Dho[mh]n[u]il[l] ic Iain Oig of Taransay' describing Captain Campbell as 'one of the most gent[le]manly men who ever live.' Campbell is said to have lived at Aoi [Uidh] and then Paible before moving to Rodail [Roghadal/Rodel, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] where he was greatly venerated to the extent that people were said to have run away from him for fear that he would be offended by them looking at him. He was buried at Scarista [Scarasta] and was a cousin of Ann Campbell the composer of the lament 'Ailein Duinn'.
Dates
- Creation: 8 July 1870
Language of Materials
Gaelic English
Conditions Governing Access
This material is unrestricted.
Extent
From the Series: 64 folios ; 19.5 x 23 cm
Physical Location
5.07
Physical Location
folio 5v, line 18 to folio 6r, line 10
- Dwellings
- Family History
- Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland
- Laments
- Landowners
- Placenames
- Rodel Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland
- Rural population
- Scarasta Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland
- Tales
- Taransay Harris Inverness-shire Scotland
- Taransay Inverness-shire Scotland
- Taransay Inverness-shire Scotland
- Uidh Taransay Inverness-shire Scotland
Subject
- Campbell, Kenneth, Captain (of Uidh | Taransay | and Rodel | Isle of Harris) (Person)
- Campbell (of Taransay) (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)
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