Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 211 Collections and/or Records:
Story entitled 'Cailleach Bheag an fhasaich', 12 February 1895
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/87
Scope and Contents
Story written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Cailleach Bheag an fhasaich' [Little Carlin of the Wild]. There was a poor soul living in Benbecula called Iagan-lom, because he had never managed to grow a beard. He wanted to marry someone like himself who was neither too big nor too small so he decided to go away to find her so that if she rejected him no one would know. So he set out whereupon a crow told him to go to Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris as that's where...
Dates:
12 February 1895
Story entitled 'Caisteal Bhuiri', 1871
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW119/35
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Caisteal Bhuiri' [Caisteal Bhuirgh/Borve Castle, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula] collected from an unnamed informant telling how. Written transversely over the first few lines of this item also in pencil is 'Donl mac Iain Mhuid[eartach] who lived at Borve last was the last buried in the tunga at Howmore [Tobha Mòr, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. Raol Mor & Raol Og buried at Cladh Mhoire Nunton in the caibieal'.
Dates:
1871
Story entitled 'Creag Earnaig', 1894
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/51
Scope and Contents
Story written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Creag Earnaig' describing how Creag Earnaig got its name. The location is described as about two hundred and fifty yards north east of the Female Industrial School Torlum Primary School, Cnoc na Monadh/Torlum, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula]. The stones were once a Danish princess called Earnag, her son and midwife, who had been turned to stone by Earnag's wicked stepmother, who had followed her to Scotland, where she...
Dates:
1894
Story entitled 'Crodh Marra' [sea-cattle], 4 February 1895
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/86
Scope and Contents
Story written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Crodh Marra' [crodh-mara or sea-cattle]. It tells how a man in Howgarry, North Uist [Hogha Gearraidh/Hogharry, Uibhist a Tuath] was having a difficult time, with his children and his cattle dying in infancy so on the advice of a wise old man, he decided to get one of the red and white sea cattle, which were often seen in the water near the shore. To do this he had to sprinkle 'ùir dhubh' or black loam soil on the...
Dates:
4 February 1895
Story entitled 'Cu Du Mhic a Phi' and accompanying alternative version, 28 October 1872
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/97
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Cu Du Mhic a Phi' [Cù Dubh Mhic a' Phì] collected from Archibald Currie, shoemaker, Àird na Monadh, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. The story tells of the wife of the shepherd called Mac a' Phì who lives by Loch Ollabhat and is asked to provide cloth by a lady at Loch Olabhat/Loch Olavat and Bailemhanaich/Balivanich both Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula. She panics that she will not be able to meet the task and summons the fairies to help. Realising that it was probably unwise to enlist...
Dates:
28 October 1872
Story entitled 'Dealan De' [Yellow Butterfly], 30 January 1895
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/83
Scope and Contents
Story written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Dealan De' [Dealan-DèYellow Butterfly]. MacRury tells how there are many kinds of Dealan-Dè but this particular kind is uncommon and did not exist until Christ had risen from the dead. They all came out of Christ's tomb. He gives a lengthy, romantic physical description of the butterfly and tells how they are never seen around wrong-doers or where there is bad language. It is good luck for the butterfly to be seen...
Dates:
30 January 1895
Story entitled 'Flora MacDonald', 1892
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/20
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Flora MacDonald' telling how she met Bonnie Prince Charlie and how MacDonalds and MacEachens helped him to escape from Uist, including details of a priest's encounter with government officers and the various cordons through which they managed to pass unobserved. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
1892
Story entitled 'Iron and Lightning', c1875
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/49
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Iron and Lightning' telling how Highlanders knew 'The power of iron over lightning' long ago, describing how when a storm began the sister of a man in Benbecula [Beinn na Faoghla] knelt and prayed for the storm to stop while he heated iron tongs on the fire and hung them on the pot chain. 'If the lightning came into the house the heated tongs attracted it and carried it up the luitheir or farlos'. The text looks as if it may be incomplete.
Dates:
c1875
Story entitled 'Leabhar Dearg Chlann Mhuirich', c1865
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/17
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Leabhar Dearg Chlann Mhuirich' [The Red Book of Clann Mhuirich] collected from Seonaid Nic Mhurich [Janet Currie], aged 64, Staoinebrig, Uist D[eas] [Staoinebrig, Stoneybridge, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] on 24 February 1865. The story tells how in a time of great violence the Iarla Leanna [Earl of Lennox but queried by Carmichael as Earl of Antrim] escaped to the mountains with his son. Feeling compelled to return to his people who he knew were in danger, he left his son in...
Dates:
c1865
Story entitled 'Leabhar Dearg Clann Muirich', 24 January or February 1865
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/12
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Leabhar Dearg Clann Muirich' collected from Seonaid Nic Muirich [Janet Currie], age 64, Staoinebreac, Uist a chinne Deas [Staoinebrig/Stoneybridge, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. The story tells how in a time of great violence the Iarla Leanna [Earl of Lennox] escaped to the mountains with his son. Feeling compelled to return to his people who he knew were in danger, he left his son in the mountains telling him to go whichever way God told him to go. Muireach, the Earl's son...
Dates:
24 January or February 1865