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Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 280 Collections and/or Records:

Cure for cattle, September 1872

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/141
Scope and Contents

Cure for cattle possibly collected from John Cameron, Borve [Borgh, Barraigh/Isle of Barra] in which water has to be taken from a stream which forms a march or [nach tra'adh] and at sunset or sunrise the person must go 'without an eye of man or woman' and place silver in the dish of water and sprinkle it three times on the cow. Text has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: September 1872

Cure for warts, 1901

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/82
Scope and Contents

Cure for warts probably collected on the Isle of Barra [Barraigh] which reads 'Fuil cirein coillich will put away warts' [cockscomb blood]. Text has been scored through.

Dates: 1901

Cures involving the tongue, 1901

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/38
Scope and Contents

Cures involving the tongue including that putting one's tongue on the liver of an otter will bring healing and that if the tongue is put on a burn, it never rises and 'heals greatly'. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1901

Custom about 'La nam Marbh', September 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/142
Scope and Contents

Custom about 'La nam Marbh' [2 November] probably collected on Barraigh/Isle of Barra that people would take off their socks and shoes and take alms to the poor' as a propitiation to God for the souls in purgatory.' Carmichael notes that the custom is 'Not now bare footed.' Text has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: September 1872

Custom and rhyme beginning 'Eimh iuch iuch, S a mhuir air chuth', 1901

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/85
Scope and Contents

Custom in which a man going to the shore would call to his neighbours the rhyme beginning 'Eimh iuch iuch, S a mhuir air chrith'. The rhyme is composed of eight lines. Text has been scored through.

Dates: 1901

Custom and story entitled 'Souming', 15 December 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/55
Scope and Contents Custom and story written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Souming' [number and type of stock an individual croft can graze on a common grazings] describing the ages at which cows were included in the 'leibhidh' [levy], how in 1810 Lord MacDonald and MacCoinnich Bodhar of Lewis [MacKenzie of Seaforth, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis] introduced new rules while Clanranald had no souming until 1820. MacRury states that in 1830 his grandfather had to send five...
Dates: 15 December 1894

Custom of horse racing, gathering carrots and celebrations on the Isle of Barra on saints days, 25 September 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/109
Scope and Contents Custom of horse racing, gathering carrots and celebrations on the Isle of Barra [Barraigh] on saints days including that on La Fheill Barra [St Barr's Day] and St Michael's Day [La Fheill Mìcheil] men would race horses three times round the cemetery at Cille Bharra and at Borve [Borgh] respectively. The man would always have a woman sitting behind him. Also, after mass on the Sunday, girls would dig up wild carrots and collect them in the pockets of a while plaid with red stripes. The cloth...
Dates: 25 September 1872

Customs relating to La Fheill Mìcheil [St Michael's Day], c1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/117
Scope and Contents

Customs relating to La Fheill Mìcheil [Là Fhèill Mhìcheil or St Michael's Day/Michaelmas] including that 'glac churran' [load of carrots] was given to the lad who gave the 'culag' [piggy-back]; that wives were not allowed at the [horse] race; and that 'Struan Mìcheil' was made of 'glas[s] of whisky black carrowy yolk of egg'.

Dates: c1872

Description of a circular archaeological feature, September 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/134
Scope and Contents

Description of a circular archaeological featur, probably on Isle of Barra [Barraigh] which reads 'On an arti[ficial] isl[and] [Flat] pollag / not more than 2 in d[iameter] one side & tapering to the surf[ace] Circular'.

Dates: September 1872

Diagram plan of St Clair's Castle, 26 September 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/132
Scope and Contents

Diagram plan of St Clair's Castle [Dùn Mhic Leòid, Loch Tangasdale, Barraigh/Isle of Barra] noting the length of walls, openings within walls, water level and other measurements.

Dates: 26 September 1872