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Kentangaval Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1874, 1877 and 1891

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108
Scope and Contents Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing songs, poems, tales, names, vocabulary and expressions collected in the Outer Hebrides [Na h-Eileanan an Iar]. The first part of the volume contains transcriptions taken as Carmichael listened to informants in 1877 while the second part appears to be copies of previous transcriptions of material collected by Carmichael and Rev Malcolm MacPhail in 1874 and written into the notebook in 1891. Amongst the material is a version of the lament...
Dates: 1874, 1877 and 1891

Notes about a purchase and vocabulary, 23 March 1877

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/23
Scope and Contents

Note probably collected from Anthony Campbell, Kentangval [Ceann Tangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Barra] about a purchase made by James MacNeill mac Ghilleaspaig Neill in Ireland. Also, Gaelic names for turbot and halibut, which have been scored out.

Dates: 23 March 1877

Notes about eels, 23 March 1877

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/18
Scope and Contents

Notes probably collected from Anthony Campbell, Kentangval [Ceann Tangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Barra] on eels, how they move and a story about a large eel once caught at Airdabhorain [Àird Mhurain, Barraigh/Barra].

Dates: 23 March 1877

Notes about lobsters and fish, 23 March 1877

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/19
Scope and Contents

Notes probably collected from Anthony Campbell, Kentangval [Ceann Tangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Barra] on when lobsters and various fish spawn, including Gaelic terms.

Dates: 23 March 1877

Notes about otters, 23 March 1877

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/17
Scope and Contents

Notes probably collected from Anthony Campbell, Kentangval [Ceann Tangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Barra] on otters, young otters and how they eat eels.

Dates: 23 March 1877

Notes on fish livers and vocabulary, 23 March 1877

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/22
Scope and Contents

Notes probably collected from Anthony Campbell, Kentangval [Ceann Tangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Barra] on how to cook the livers of various types of fish and the Gaelic name for coral.

Dates: 23 March 1877

Notes on sponges and fish livers, 23 March 1877

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/24
Scope and Contents

Note probably collected from Anthony Campbell, Kentangval [Ceann Tangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Barra] about sponges and that they are only eaten by two families in Barra and that fish liver is 'but little used' there too.

Dates: 23 March 1877

Story about a large fish, 23 March 1877

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/20
Scope and Contents

Story probably collected from Anthony Campbell, Kentangval [Ceann Tangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Barra] about a large fish the 'size of a spinning wheel' seen by a man named MacLeod from Grimsay [Griomasaigh, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist].

Dates: 23 March 1877

Vocabulary related to fish, 23 March 1877

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/21
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary related to fish collected from Anthony Campbell, Kentangval [Ceann Tangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Barra], including muc-shiolaig, iasg an riobain, cloidheag, ruileis and manach-sgú ir .

Dates: 23 March 1877