Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael probably while he lived at 31, Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, as this address is written in ink on the first folio. Written on the inside front cover but heavily scored is text which reads 'Mrs Malcolm MacLeod, [- Islay], widow of Mal[colm] MacLeod [Loch-]. The majority of the notebook contains material collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/ Islay relating folklore and natural history about the birds, fish, shellfish and animals found in and...
Dates:
1887
Quote from a conversation between Tighearna Ìle and a ferryman, 3 February 1874
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/46
Scope and Contents
Quote from a conversation between Tighearna Ìle and a ferryman taking him to Barra [Barriagh/Isle of Barra] which reads 'An ro[bh] [th]u ria[mh] san t Suain?' 'Sioma uair sin.' 'Cuine?' 'Duair bha mi am chadal.'
Dates:
3 February 1874