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Driomor South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Charm for toothache entitled 'Eolas an Deidi', 7 April 1869

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW107/55
Scope and Contents

Charm for toothache entitled 'Eolas an Deidi' beginning 'An or a chuir Bride' collected from Alastair MacDonald [Driomor/Drimmore, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. Text has been scored through and over it is written 'Transcribed into No III B[ook] p184 A[lexander] A[rchibald] C[armichael]'.

Dates: 7 April 1869

Song beginning 'Ill hu o Ile o ro ho', 7 April 1869 to 5 May 1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW107/57
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Song beginning 'Ill hu o Ile o ro ho' possibly collected from Alastair MacDonald, Drimmore [Driomor, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. Note in margin about vocabulary for 'lomairt' and 'foineart'. Text has been scored through and a note reads 'Transcribed Wednesday, May 5 1869 A[lexander] A[rchibald] C[armichael] Book 2 p[age]'.

Dates: 7 April 1869 to 5 May 1869

Story about Prince Charles Edward Stuart, 16 September 1890

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/18
Scope and Contents Story about Prince Charles Edward Stuart [Bonnie Prince Charlie], that he had a drink of milk from a black sheep on Brai Bhornish [BrĂ igh Bhornais, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] and that a party of red soldiers asked a man if they had seen the Prince, to which he replied that he had just parted company with him. The soldiers ordered him to take them to the Prince and that they would reward him so he took them up Drimore [Driomor] and all but one of the soldiers fell away, whereupon the man hit...
Dates: 16 September 1890