South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
Found in 356 Collections and/or Records:
Note about Raol Donn and Blar an Dronga, c1872
Note about Sgeir na h-iollan, 27 May 1869
Note collected from Mary MacMillan, Lionacuidhe/Liniquie, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist about Sgeir na h-iollan stating that it is below Balemore Iocar [Ìochdar] and that the top half of it can be seen at half tide. 'The àth and corn yard are quite visible. A deep caolas with most rapid tide.' The text has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere.
Note about shellfish and vocabulary note for gath [mast or oar], 21 May 1869
Note collected from Donald MacPhee, blacksmith, Brèibhig/Breivig, Barraigh/Isle of Barra telling how a very small form of cockle [strubain] could be found on Loch Lì on Beinn mhor [Beinn Mhòr, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]: 'very small but alive as if only embryos'. MacPhee states that the Dall Mòr told him that there was an unnamed plant which grew by Loch Lì, which if even the best-shod horse trod on it, it's horseshoe would fall off. The vocabulary note is for gath, a mast or oar.
Note about stones from Dun nan gallan and Dun b[aile] Gharvai, 26 March 1872
Note about stones from Dun nan gallan and Dun b[aile] Gharvai [Dùn nan Gallan and Dùn Baile Gharbhaidh, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] that that they were 'taken across the lakes during an extra frost 50 years ago [c1822]. The stones taken across on losgun [sledges/losgainn].'
Note about the rocks 'Leac na Bana-Ghoisich' and 'Na h-Uird Bhairneach', 3 February 1874
Note about the rock 'Leac na Bana-Ghoisich' that it is a dolmen at Kilbride [Cille Bhrìghde, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] and was where a bana-ghoiseach [possibly god-mother] was burnt. Also notes that Na h-Uird Bhairneach are 'long lintels lying down.'
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 about the verse 'Rann Liadail', 5 April 1872
Note about two South Uist people who have Fenian tales, c1865
Note about two South Uist people who have Fenian tales namely 'Mor Nic Illeathain - Baosdal mu dheas Brataichean na Feinne &c' [Marion MacLean, Ceann a Deas Loch Baghasdail/South Boisdale, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] and 'Aonas Donullach Gearradh na moine Duain Oisein' [Angus MacDonald, Geàrraidh na Mònadh/Garrynamonie].
Note about Uamh Airi 'n t Sluic Lochsheilevagh [Uamh Airidh an t-Sluic Loch Sheileabhaig] and accompanying diagram, 25 March 1872
Note about Uamh Bheinn nan Caorach, 26 March 1872
Note about Uamh Bheinn nan Caorach describing its situation, that it cannot be entered and that it is 'a nat[ural] cave ent[erin]g fr[om] [the] sea at Liursey [Liursaigh/Liursay, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]'.