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South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Story about a cockerel and a fox, April 1872

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW154/5
Scope and Contents

Story about a cockerel and a fox collected from [-] Caimbeul [Janet Campbell, midwife] Loch Sgioporst [Loch Sgioport/Loch Skipport, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] in which the fox tries to trick the cock by implying that they are related. There are a few annotations to the text written in pencil.

Dates: April 1872

Story entitled 'The Cock and the Fox', c1872

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/65
Scope and Contents

Story entitled 'The Cock and the Fox' in Gaelic, [collected from Janet Campbell, midwife, Loch Sgioport/Loch Skipport, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] in which the fox tries to trick the cock by implying that they are related.

Dates: c1872

Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1872

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW154
Scope and Contents Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, inscribed on the front inside cover with 'Alexander Arch[ibal]d Carmichael H. M. Inland Revenue. Iocar, South Uist 27th April 1872 No IV' [Iochdar, Uibhist a Deas] Printed on the front cover are the words 'General Entry Book No, 247'. The book contains five stories 'Clann Uisne', 'Torac na Taine', 'Rocabarraidh', 'Cugarbhad, Righ nan Cat' and an untitled story about a cockerel and a fox, collected in Uibhist a Deas/South Uist, Beinn...
Dates: 1872