South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1874, 1877 and 1891
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108
Scope and Contents
Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing songs, poems, tales, names, vocabulary and expressions collected in the Outer Hebrides [Na h-Eileanan an Iar]. The first part of the volume contains transcriptions taken as Carmichael listened to informants in 1877 while the second part appears to be copies of previous transcriptions of material collected by Carmichael and Rev Malcolm MacPhail in 1874 and written into the notebook in 1891. Amongst the material is a version of the lament...
Dates:
1874, 1877 and 1891
Story entitled 'Dun -Ra'ail', 29 January 1875
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/124
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Dun -Ra'ail' [Dùn Raghnaill] probably collected from John MacInnes, aged 70 years, Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist telling how Dùn Raghnaill came to be built. Raol mac Ailein [Raghnall mac Ailein or Ranald MacDonald of Clanranald] lived at Dremisdale Dreumasdal/Drimsdale and his son in Morar [Mòrar, Siorrachd Inbhir Nis/Inverness-shire]. After a hard spring, his son came ashore at Loch Sgioport looking for food but he refused to give him any. In the...
Dates:
29 January 1875