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Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 280 Collections and/or Records:

List of names, probably informants, c1893

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/39
Scope and Contents

List of names, probably informants comprising Duncan MacLellan, Neill MacNeil 'mac Iain bhain', Isobel Chisholm and 'Barbal Drimsdale'.

Dates: c1893
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

List of vocabulary probably from travelling people, 1901

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/49
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List of vocabulary probably from travelling people (often known as 'tinkers' cant') containing words and expressions mostly for food and clothing probably collected on the Isle of Barra/Barraigh. Text has been scored out as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Mostly illegible note mentioning names of people, September 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/122
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Mostly illegible note mentioning names of people, including Archibald McLellan, Archibald MacD[o]ugal and Ang[us]l Martin. The context of the note is unclear owing to the illegibility of the note. The text has been scored through in both pencil and ink and a margin note reads 'Not need this'.

Dates: September 1872
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

'Nighean Righ Eirinn' [The King of Ireland's daughter], c 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW476
Scope and Contents

The tale 'Nighean Righ Eirinn' recorded from Alasdair MacNeil, Barra, on 13 February 1866. Begins 'Bha righ ann an Eirinn uair agus bha e . ..' 'Needs correcting A.C.C.' is written at the top of the first page, and 'For Mr Campbell of Islay's acceptance' is written in the margin.

Dates: c 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Note about a battery on Barraigh/Isle of Barra, September 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/168
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Note about a battery on Barraigh/Isle of Barra which reasd 'Battery on shore at Dun na Cli'e [Dùn Cliobh] on shore side.'

Dates: September 1872
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about a dun on Loch Beag Keantangval, 1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW107/16
Scope and Contents

Note that a dun on Loch Beag Keantangval [Bàgh Beag, Ceanntangbhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Barra] was where Ciosmaol Castle [Caisteal Chiosmuil/Kisimul Castle] was to have been built but it was found to be unsuitable as 'This is an arm of the sea so narrow at the mouth that a per[son] c[ou]ld almost leap across'.

Dates: 1869
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about battles fought on Barraigh/Isle of Barra, September 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/165
Scope and Contents

Note about battles fought on Barraigh/Isle of Barra which reads 'Battles fo[ugh]t at Lag Fhloch & Trai na h-Alman or Tota an [-]' [Bàgh Hallaman].

Dates: September 1872
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about burial customs on Barraigh/Isle of Barra and accompanying vocabulary, August 1903

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/20
Scope and Contents Burial customs on Barraigh/Isle of Barra, probably collected from Ciorstan MacLean née Cameron, Leideag, Barraigh/Isle of Barra, telling how a 'bonnach tollt' was put in the coffin and a coin is put under the coffin in the grave. 'The toll saved the bonnach from the corra-chagailt...Even the coin in the fasnadh had to be treated in a peculiar way to save it from the sithich' [fairies].' The vocabulary notes include 'Tàsg = the bird that foretells death tri sgramhann granda - less than a...
Dates: August 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note about Caibeal Cui-Chros-é and Colla mac Spéir, 12 August 1871

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/22
Scope and Contents Note about Caibeal Cui-Chros-é and Colla mac Spéir collected from Daniel Macinnon [Daniel or Donald MacKinnon] Grin [Grithean/Grean, Barraigh/Isle of Barra]. The note describes the situation of the chapel as being 'fo bhonn na beinne bige on the south side of Beinn Eoligearry at Meallach' [Beinn Bheag Eolaigearraidh], that it is marked by a standing stone and that Colla mac Spéir built it but was also burned in it. Carmichael notes that it was referred to in Martin Martin's book ...
Dates: 12 August 1871
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about Crann[o]g nien Ri L[och]lann, September 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/147
Scope and Contents

Note about Crann[o]g nien Ri L[och]lann [Crannog nighean Rìgh Lochlainn/Dùn Crannag] that it is situated at Crannag [Barraigh/Isle of Barra], which is where the placename comes from. A dun was built for here there but the roof was filled over and the people inside were killed. It is mentioned in the poem 'Tha Chr[a]n[na]g fo chlachan an duin'.

Dates: September 1872
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

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