Song beginning 'A Sheum ic Eoin horo ghiulan' and accompanying story, 22 May 1869 and 16 June 1869
Scope and Contents
Song beginning 'A Sheum[ais] ic Eoin horo ghiulan, Is gorach [th]u horo ghiulain' collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 94 years, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay. The song is composed of eighteen lines. The accompanying story tells how Seumas mac Eoin ic an Ollamh Ilich or Seumas Sasunach fell in love with a married woman on Mingulay and poisoned her husband. An old woman saw him out one day in great distress and on being questioned he told her that a cloud was passing which was full of plague and would kill the islanders. He noted down exactly when this had happened and received answers saying that hundreds of people had died before the following Sunday. After the song is a list of cladhs or cemeteries and their associated saints which reads 'Cladhs - Bearnaray, Beanachadh Na Moire, Miulay Bean Chaluim Chille, Pabay Cladh Chriost San[dray] Bean Bhride' [Bearnaraigh/Berneray, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay, Cladh Chriosd, Pabaigh/Pabbay and Cladh Mhoire/Cladh Bhrìde, Sanndraigh/Sandray]. The text has been scored through in ink and a note written transversely reads 'Transcribed June 16 1869 A[lexander] A[rchibald] C[armichael]'.
Dates
- Creation: 22 May 1869 and 16 June 1869
Language of Materials
Gaelic English
Conditions Governing Access
This material is unrestricted.
Extent
From the Series: 64 folios ; 17 x 20.3 cm
Physical Location
5.07
Physical Location
folio 12r, line 11 to folio 13r, line 10
- Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland
- Cemeteries
- Cladh Chaluim Chille Mingulay Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland
- Cladh Mhoire Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland
- Cladh Mhoire Sandray Inverness-shire Scotland
- Love
- Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland
- Pabbay Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland
- Pabbay Barra Inverness-shire Scotland
- Plague
- Prophecy
- Saints
- Sanndraigh Inverness-shire Scotland
- Songs
- Tales
Subject
- MacNeil, Roderick, c1790-1875 (Person)
- Beaton (medical practitioners | Islay) (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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