North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
Found in 238 Collections and/or Records:
Fragment of a song beginning 'Cha ro dad a shibhinn oirre', c1865
Fragment of a song beginning 'Cha ro[bh] dad a shibhinn oirre, S ged nach faighinn idir i' which is probably part of the comic song entitled 'Port (Duet)' between Donull Cuimineach and Alasdair Taillear found at CW113/30. This piece of text is written upside down on the page.
Fragment of a story about wood washed up after a storm, 14 July 1870
Fragment of a story probably collected from Margaret MacDonald, Malacleit/Malaclete, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist about wood washed up after a storm which reads 'MacDona[ald] when a breacach often shot his nets over the [runs] and after a storm saw pieces of decayed sta[v]es like wood washed up and sticks & things.'
Fragment of the song' Ailean Duinn' and accompanying story and biographical note, 8 July 1870 to 10 December 1883
Genealogical note about descendants of Righ Lochlann, October 1870
Genealogical note about descendants of Righ Lochlann, probably collected in Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist, listing various clans from 'Auladh dearg Mac Ri[gh] Lochlain' to Clann ic Ruiry who were descended from 'one of the 20 men soldiers who came with Tochra ni[ghea]n a Chaanaich'.
Geographical notes on An Rò'adh and accompanying story about hunting birds, 9 July 1870
Historical notes relating to the marriages and offspring of Clan Donald and accompanying archaeological notes about chapels, 1894
Historical notes relating to the marriages and offspring of Clan Donald Godfrey of Siol Gorrie [Sìol Goraidh] and Donald first Earl of Ross, John Earl of Antrim and Alexander of Lochaber. Accompanying archaeological notes relate to chapels built close to each other.
Incomplete notes on seal-hunting areas around North Uist and accompanying sayings, c1875
Incomplete notes on the different areas and pennylands in the north west of Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist and the proportion of caught seals they receive and an accompanying note relating to Odar, the Viking raider, whose head was buried in Griminis/Griminish.
Incomplete story entitled 'Niean Gobha Ghriminis', 20 October 1870
Lament beginning 'Hug o Mo Mhollaisa hug o', 24 March 1869 to 30 September 1875
Lament beginning 'Hug o Mo Mhollaisa hug o' collected from Mairiread Nic Leoid [Margaret MacLeod], Gearrai, Taighearry [Gearraidh, Tigh a' Ghearraidh/Tigharry, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] for a drowned [woman]. One verse has been written transversely on folio 32r. Text has been scored out with a note which reads 'Transcribed into Book III p181 30th Sept[ember] 1875. A.A.C'.
List of dog owners in North Uist, 1870
List of dog owners in Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist written by Alexander Carmichael as part of his excise duties and the date of inspection, when the ownership of a dog was verified, recorded by 'RU' [Robert Urquhart]. The list records the name, occupation and abode of the dog owner, the date 'dog seen' and by whom it was seen. There are eighty three names on the list with folios 5v and 6r being blank. The list has been scored through in ink.