Placenames
Found in 233 Collections and/or Records:
Note about Crois an t suichain, 23 May 1869
Note collected from Roderick MacNeil, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay which reads, 'Crois an t suichain [Crois an t-Suidheachain] where the priest used to say mass in the olden times.'
Note about Cros-é, September 1872
Note about Cros-é which reads 'Cros-é was a woman & had a cuthai [cattle fold] at Cu'ai Cros-E-' [Caibeal Cui-Chroise/Caibeal Colla Mac Speur, Barraigh/Isle of Barra].
Note about Druimbì and Clachan on Lios Mòr/Lismore, September 1870
Note which reads 'Druimbì (?e binn?) where sentence was pro[ounced] at the Mod & down on the smoth's croft at Clachan' [possibly Druim Buidhe and Clachan, both Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].
Note about Dun Domhail [Dùn Dhòmhnaill], c1892
Note about Dun Domhail [Dùn Dhòmhnaill] that is is where Donald, Lord of the Isles held a council twice a year and there 'An Cala' is in a field near this.
Note about duns in Harris and on the placename 'Piocair', c1872
Note about Eilean Trostain, 1869
Note indicating that Eilean Trostain at Àird an Rùnair [Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] is named after St Drostan.
Note about Fail na Muic and Fail an Tuirc, 1884
Note about 'Fail na Muic' and 'Fail an Tuirc' that they were slits in the hillside where the pig and the boar slept. Also notes that Croc an Chronan and Loch na Dunach near there [Cnoc a' Chrònain and Loch na Dùnach, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].
Note about Fasnacloich, August 1883
Note about Fasnacloich [Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] that its old name was 'Baile na Callain' and that near there a scotch fir grows out of a boulder.
Note about Fenian placenames with associated verse and vocabulary, c1866
Note about Garradh nan Cleireach and the school on Lios Mòr/Lismore, 2 September 1870
Note about Garradh nan Cleireach [Garadh nan Clèireach] and the school on Lios Mòr/LismoreLios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire that the former was in 'Kil [possibly Killandrist] is sur[rounded] by a garatot [garadh tobhta]' and that the original school was at one time about seven acres and also had land in Bailegarbh.