South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
Custom relating to 'La nam Bannag' and accompanying song, 17 January 1874
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 14 November 1873 to 10 April 1875
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. Of the ninety-three folios in the notebook, only twenty-two have been used.
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, c1868 to 16 June 1876
Incomplete story entitled 'Niean Gobha Ghriminis', 20 October 1870
List of names, probably informants, c1893
List of names, probably informants comprising Duncan MacLellan, Neill MacNeil 'mac Iain bhain', Isobel Chisholm and 'Barbal Drimsdale'.
Note about the song 'Duan Na Muthairn', c1893
Note about the song 'Duan Na Muthairn' [Rune of the Muthairn], which was collected from Dun[can] MacLel[lan] Don[nachadh] Ban, Carnan, S[outh] U[ist] on 17 January 1874 that Duncan had heard it from an old woman 'who used to frequent his fathers house and who used to repeat long hymns night after night at the fire side.'
Note entitled 'Maidean Mhara', 12 September 1890
Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1893
Rhyme beginning 'Chulaig seo! challaig seo!' and accompanying note, 17 January 1874
Rhyme collected from Duncan MacLellan, clachair [mason], Càrnan/Carnan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist, beginning 'Chulaig seo! challaig seo! chul[aig] Chul[aig] o cahl[aig] o air an to[bh]ta' noting that it was what the 'gillean cullaig' [Hogmanay boys] said as they came to the house.
Song beginning 'Bra bra blath, Ho bra bra bleth', 28 May 1869 and 17 June 1869
Song collected from Duncan MacLellan, mason and crofter, Càrnan/Carnan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist beginning 'Bra bra bleth, Ho ha bra bleth, Beil a chailleach a bhra'. The song is composed of twenty lines and has a number of annotations and amendments in pencil and ticks in ink marked against specific words/lines. 'Text has been scored through in ink and written transversely across it is 'B[ook] 3 P[-] [-] Tr[anscribed] 17 June 1869 A[lexander] A[rchibald] C[armichael]'.