South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Story entitled 'Mac Mhuirich Mor', 27 May 1869
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/46
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Mac Mhuirich Mor' probably collected from Penelope MacLellan, Ormacleit/Ormaclete, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. The text bears a number of annotations and amendments in pencil and has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere. The story tells how MacMhuirich Mòr found a small cat-like creature and took it home. His wife urged him to return the creature to where he had found it but he refused. The creature's mother came looking for her young and threatened to cause...
Dates:
27 May 1869
Verse beginining 'Altrom ucair uacan [piuthair]', 27 May 1869
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/47
Scope and Contents
Verse possibly a curse collected from Penelope MacLellan, Ormacleit/Ormaclete, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist beginning 'Altrom ucair uacan [piuthair], Fear a mhiodacha mo chrocain'.
Dates:
27 May 1869