Stilligarry South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:
Song entitled 'Laoi na h-Innge' and accompanying story, 16 September 1890
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/13
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Song entitled 'Laoi na h-Innge' collected from Iain MacPhadruig [Iain mac Phàdraig or John MacInnes, Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] on 16 September 1890 beginning 'Fhuair mo lean[nan] mi n chadail, S mi ga[bha]il fad am muigh'. The song is composed of twenty-three lines. The accompanying story tells how a gentleman's daughter fell in love with a poor man's son but were not allowed to marry so they eloped. A reward was offered for her return. Her lover brought her...
Dates:
16 September 1890
Song entitled ''Oran Sìth' beginning ''S e sid a leana ainmeil', 29 January 1875
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/1
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Waulking song entitled ''Oran Sìth' collected from Ana Nic Aonais bean Aonas (Caimbeul) [Anna Campbell], Staolgearry [Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] beginning 'S e sid a leana ainmeil, Hi ri'ile hi lium'. The song is composed of forty-seven lines with a note of the vocables to be repeated. The text is written upside down and reads in the opposite direction to the rest of the notebook.
Dates:
29 January 1875
Song toasting Dr Nicol, 25 December 1872
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/120
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Song toasting Dr Nicol, probably collected from Catherine MacIntosh, pauper, Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist beginning 'Thaining thug[ainn] [dh]an tir, Tra[gh]ai[dh] sinn uile a ghlain[n]e.' The song is composed of forty-two lines. Carmichael has mistakenly described the toast as a 'droch slaint' instead of a 'deoch-slàinte'.
Dates:
25 December 1872
Story about a young man keeping vigil over his mother's corpse, 29 January 1875
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/122
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Story probably collected from John MacInnes, aged 70 years, Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist which tells of a young man whose mother dies but before she dies she makes him promise that he and only he will keep watch over her body. When the time comes he is very frightened and is unable to rest while keeping watch. The skipper of a passing vessel sees him and asks him if he has a Bible. He gives him a cockerel and a candle and advises him to put the cockerel on the...
Dates:
29 January 1875
Story entitled 'A Bhuileaistach' and accompanying song, 29 January 1875
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/123
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Story entitled 'A Bhuileaistach' [MacMhuirich and the Beast] probably collected from John MacInnes, aged 70 years, Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. The story tells how Niall Mòr MacMhuirich found a small creature and took it home. The creature's mother, a fearful beast came looking for her young. MacMhuirich threatened her and said that he would not give it back to her unless he built a bridge or causeway from him so that he could get to Lainginis [Langinish]. The...
Dates:
29 January 1875
Story entitled 'Caileach Ghlinn Dorcha', 29 January 1875
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/126
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Story entitled 'Caileach Ghlinn Dorcha' probably collected from John MacInnes, aged 70 years, Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. The story tells how a man met an old woman who called herself 'Cailleach a' Ghlinn Dorcha'. When he asked her how old she was she replied that she was so old she could remember when there nut trees in Bornish [Bornais] and after further conversation she vanished. Carmichael notes that nuts and tree roots are found in Bornish and also that...
Dates:
29 January 1875
Story entitled 'Ceudach Nan Collachain Oir' and accompanying note, 29 January 1875
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/127
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Story entitled 'Ceudach Nan Collachain Oir' probably collected from John MacInnes, aged 70 years, Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. The story begins with Fionn and his men out hunting. They have so much success that they decide to leave some of it for collection on the way home. Gille Glas appears and asks to be employed by Fionn so Fionn has him help take the kill home. Caoilte, the fastest Fenian, and the Gille Glas arrive at the feasting hall before anyone else and...
Dates:
29 January 1875
Story entitled 'Cugarbhad, 'Righ nan Cat'', 16 May 1872
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW154/4
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Story entitled 'Cugarbhad, 'Righ nan Cat'' collected from Niall Maceachain [Neil MacEachan], crofter, Towbeag [Tobha Beag/Howbeg, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] in which Macmhurich Mor Staoligearraidh [MacMhuirich mò from Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry] is out hunting and his dogs kill Cugarbhat in a cave. A cat asks MacMhuirich if his dogs killed Cugarbhat three times and on each occasion grows larger eventually jumping at MacMhuirich's throat. One annotation has been made to the text in...
Dates:
16 May 1872
Story entitled 'Do'ull Gearr no Cearr' including a short verse, 24 January or February 1865
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/13
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Story entitled 'Do'ull Gearr no Cearr' collected from Janet Currie, age 64, Staoinebrig/Stoneybridge, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. The story tells how Niall Mòr acquired the right from Mac 'Ic Ailean [Clanranald] to Baile-bhaird at Staolaigearai [Baile a' Bhàird, Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] and how his son Donald Gearr lost that right. Donald had married twice and his second wife realised that her children would come second to those of his first wife so she burnt...
Dates:
24 January or February 1865
Story entitled 'Leabhar Dearg Chlann Mhuirich', c1865
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/17
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Story entitled 'Leabhar Dearg Chlann Mhuirich' [The Red Book of Clann Mhuirich] collected from Seonaid Nic Mhurich [Janet Currie], aged 64, Staoinebrig, Uist D[eas] [Staoinebrig, Stoneybridge, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] on 24 February 1865. The story tells how in a time of great violence the Iarla Leanna [Earl of Lennox but queried by Carmichael as Earl of Antrim] escaped to the mountains with his son. Feeling compelled to return to his people who he knew were in danger, he left his son in...
Dates:
c1865