Song collected from Ruairi mac Dhonil [Roderick MacNeil], aged 94 years, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay and also from 'a black haired intell[i]gent] faced woman who sings & repeats with much taste and good sense. Easy to write from her diction'. The song begins 'Apran dui o hi horo huil o hò, Apran dui o hi hiri ile og u'. The song is composed of eight lines and Roderick states that his father, who lived in Bernara [Beàrnaraigh/Berneray] heard this 'under the floor of his house one night while he was lying awake. Twas sung by the fairies who were grinding the quern in a tom under his kitchen floor.' The text has been scored through in ink and written transversely across the text is 'Trans[cribed] June 16 1869 A[lexander] A[rchibald] C[armichael]'.