Story about how MacNeil died in Gearrynamoine, 19 October 1871
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/168
Scope and Contents
Story collected from Rev Alexander Campbell, priest, Bornais/Bornish, Uibhist a deas/South Uist, telling how MacDonald of Boisdale was always trying to catch MacNeil of Barra. One day he and his men lay hidden under heather in the bottom of a boat of women. MacNeil fell for the trap and Boisdale caught him. When they landed at Kilbride [Cille Bhrìghde] MacNeil escaped and so Boisdale and his men pursued him. While they were passing through Gearrynamoine [Geàrraidh na Mònadh/Garrynamonie] 'a man seeing his ti[gh]earna in hot pursuit threw an arrow & killed MacNeil'. MacNeil was said to have been buried where he fell and when a skeleton was found while a drain was being made some years previously [to the story being told] 'Old Ranald MacDonald told whose skeleton it was' that is MacNeil's.
Dates
- 19 October 1871
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 63v, line 14 to folio 64r, line 5
- Archaeology
- Boisdale (parish) South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Bornish South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Campbell, Alexander, Rev, c1805-1883 (priest)
- Death
- Geàrraidh na Mònadh South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland
- Justice
- MacNeil (of Barra)
- Murder
- Punishment
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Tales
- Voyages and Travel
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 Edinburgh University Library Special 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
is-crc@ed.ac.uk