Note about how Loch Etive changed from being a lake during a storm, 6 July 1892
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/11
Scope and Contents
Note, probably collected from Duncan MacNiven, retired schoolmaster, Airds, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, about how Loch Etive changed from being a lake during a storm stating that a 'narrow isthmus of gravelly soil' separately the lake from the sea at Connel but that this was breached during a storm. He notes that the isthmus stood where the Falls of Lora are now. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates
- 6 July 1892
Language of Materials
English Gaelic
Conditions Governing Access
This material is unrestricted.
Extent
From the Series: 35 folios ; 20.2 x 14.5 cm
Physical Location
5.07
Physical Location
folio 189r, line 17 to folio 189v, line 9
- Airds Argyllshire Scotland
- Argyllshire Scotland
- Biography
- Connel Kilmore and Kilbride (parish) Argyllshire Scotland
- Falls of Lora Kilmore and Kilbride (parish) Argyllshire Scotland
- Geology
- Loch Etive Argyllshire Scotland
- Lochs
- MacNiven, Duncan, 1804-1895 (Donnachadh Phadruig | schoolmaster | Airds | Taynuilt | Argyllshire)
- Weather
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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