Placenames
Found in 233 Collections and/or Records:
Notes on the population of Tarasaigh/Taransay, 8 July 1870
Notes on the situation of Tarasaigh/Taransay houses and placename note, 8 July 1870
Notes on the situation of Tarasaigh/Taransay houses stating that some are supposed to be built over tungas [tombs], connecting the placename Tunng or Tongue, Sutherland [Tunga, Cataibh] with it and noting that Àird nan Ceall is to be found at 'the points of land S[outh] W[est] of the temples.'
Notes on the use of Lios Mòr/Lismore for burials, September 1870
Notes on the use of Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire for burials, including that people would come from Inbhir Aora/Inveraray and the surrounding country to bury their dead, that Dun fraoin and Tor-an-aolaich, at the north end of Achnacrois were big burial sites [Dùn Fraoin, Tòrr an Aolaich and Achnacroish]. A man called Cheyne offended Roman Catholics by taking two cartloads of bones from Uamh Dhùn Fraoin to the Roman Catholic burial ground.
Notes relating to Taransay, 7 July 1870
Place-name and archaeological notes relating to Loisgcintir [Losgaintir/Luskentyre], 7 July 1870
Place-name note about Bàgh Chlann Neill and accompanying story fragment, 13 July 1870
Place-name note about Bàgh Chlann Neill, that it is at Losaid at Bun at Sruth Obe [Rubh' an Losaid, An Struth, An t-Ob/Leverburgh, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] and accompanying story fragment which reads 'Some MacNeills lived here & when they com[menced] a creach they ran away & took their boat to le'.
Place-name note about Eilean na h-oige and the element 'Vàl', 8 July 1870
Place-name note which reads 'Eilean na h-oige of old Vallay. All the hills end[in]g in Vàl are Danish.'
Place-name note for Crois-an-t suidheachain and Leapanan Chaluim Chille, 8 August 1867
Place-name note probably collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay for which reads 'Crois-an-t suidheachain. A place the priests had for perform[ing] div[ine] worship. Leapanan Chaluim Chille is close at hand.' Carmichael adds a reminder to 'See cross at Dunganich' [Dùn Gainmhich/Dunganichy Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula].
Place-name note for Loch ghro'avig, 10 July 1870
Place-name note which reads 'Loch gho'avig w[est] of Leosvig' [Bàgh Ghòbhaig and Loch Leosavay both Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris].
Place-name note for Taransay, 7 July 1870
Place-name note which reads 'An Dun above the houses in Taransaidh, Dun Chlach north of this. Aird Mhanuis (Manus) arable land.' [Dùn , Dùn Chlach, Àird Mhànais, Tarasaigh/Taransay]