Placenames
Found in 233 Collections and/or Records:
Story entitled 'Creag Earnaig', 1894
Story entitled 'Cruban Dunan is Baidein', September 1870
Story entitled 'Dun -Ra'ail', 29 January 1875
Story relating to Saint Ronan, 27 October 1873
Story relating to Saint Ronan probably collected from Angus Gunn, cottar, Dail bho Thuath/North Dell, Nis/Ness, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis telling how St Ronan made his way to the island which became Roney [Rònaidh/North Rona] pursued by a wild beast. The story also relates that Ronan built a chapel on the island and that his two sisters followed him there.
Story relating to Tai an Deora and Bachuil, September 1870
Story that Tai an Deora [Taigh an Deòra] was where the old house of Bachuil stood along with a kiln and barn but that 'Iain Baran' lost Bachuil about sixty years before [c.1810] [both places Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].
Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1864-1869
Two placenames 'For Lord Napier', 1883
Two placenames 'For Lord Napier' which are 'Glengaber' and 'Ettri[ck]' [both in Selkirkshire]. No equivalents are given for either placename.
Two stories about Ruary an tartair [Roderick MacNeil] and accompanying notes about Barraigh/Isle of Barra], 1867
Two stories relating to the rocks and seaweed on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 8 July 1870
Verse beginning 'Goirtean a Ghille reangach' and accompanying note, October 1892
Verse which reads 'Goirtean a ghille reangach, Far a bheil an t-or an fal, S cha fhai e ach a ni mhaol charrach' and accompanying note which states 'This place is at Fearnoch, Muckairn' [Goirtean a' Ghille Reangach, Muc Càrna, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]