St Kilda Inverness-shire Scotland
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
Notes about the bird 'buigire' [puffin], June 1887
Notes about the bird 'buigire' [puffin] that they arrive and leave Hiorta/St Kilda every year, flying in clouds, in circles, darkening the sky and landing on rocks.
Notes about the bird fulmar and St Kildans, June 1887
Notes about the bird fulmar and St Kildans that on Hiorta/St Kilda each fulmar is valued at seven pence each between 'oil bird + feather'; that men keep a 'goile Sulaire' on their belts into which they put a fulmar's bill for pouring out oil; describing how fulmars are caught; how the carcasses are divided and how wages are deducted for loss of any birds. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Notes and vocabulary notes about sheep in the St Kilda archipelago, June 1887
Notes about sheep and wool in the St Kilda archipelago that the sheep are not fleeced but pulled, that the wool on 'sheep in Bor[eraigh]' [Borerary] is one and a half [inches] long and that there is a 'well in top of Lei - no grass' [Stac Lee]. The vocabulary notes read '"Ruagadh" = catching sheep'; 'Giaraiste = ab[ou]t 9 fath[oms] of rope which S[aint] K[ildans] carry like a non-com[mi]s[sioned] off[ice]rs shash [sash]' and 'Rusgadh = Signalling'.
Saying or quote beginning 'Bu tu sealgair a bhigein', June 1887
Saying or quote which reads 'Bu tu sealgair a bhigein Air an t-sitig la sneaca S Kil[d]a'.
Song beginning 'Tobar nam buadh', June 1887
Song beginning 'Tobar nam buadh, Tha shuas sa gleannan' with a note which follows reading 'A schoolmaster in S Kilda in print' [Hiorta/St Kilda]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Song entitled 'Chai e leis', 22 May 1865
Song entitled 'Gleann' and accompanying notes, 11 July 1870
Song entitled 'Mor Iorteach' and accompanying story, 1883
Song entitled 'Mor Iorteach' and accompanying story, 1883
Story about a St Kilda man surviving a fall, 1867
Story about a St Kilda [Hiorta] man surviving a fall from the rocks where he was hunting because 'the birds he had round his belt kept him afloat.' It adds that he was driven to North Uist [Uibhist a Tuath].