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Inverness-shire Scotland

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 73 Collections and/or Records:

Story about trawling for mullet, 16 August 1880

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/30
Scope and Contents

Story about trawling for mullet in Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist. Carmichael describes how the mud was 'tenacious' and it was easy to sink down into it and an episode in which 'the gaffer' got stuck in the mud and after an hour and fifteen minutes was dragged out using heather.

Dates: 16 August 1880
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story entitled 'Iain Lom', 6 July 1892

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/3
Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Iain Lom' collected from Duncan MacNiven, 'old schoolmaster', Cnoc na h-Aird, Taigh an Uillt/Taynuilt, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire which tells how the wife of a Campbell of Glasaruith in Killmhich[eil] [Kilmichael Glassary, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] was being harrassed by a 'cruiner' [tax-collector] in her husband's absence. Having complained to her husband he lay in wait for the tax-collector and when the tax-collector harrassed his wife he stabbed him but then fled...
Dates: 6 July 1892
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Vocabulary note entitled 'Heigir or Eigir', 1895

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/76
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Heigir or Eigir' describing the term as being commonly used amongst old highlanders and 'often used as a nick-name ofr hald grown boys, having a pale looking face long thin bones and bent inwards casan cuiladh or cuile.' He describes how it is pronounced in different parts of Gaelic-speaking Scotland with examples of expressions. Text has been scored through in pencil as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1895
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael