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Creagorry Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland

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Subject Source: Local sources

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Story entitled 'Leabhar Dearg Clann Muirich', 24 January or February 1865

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/12
Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Leabhar Dearg Clann Muirich' collected from Seonaid Nic Muirich [Janet Currie], age 64, Staoinebreac, Uist a chinne Deas [Staoinebrig/Stoneybridge, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. The story tells how in a time of great violence the Iarla Leanna [Earl of Lennox] 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 the mountains telling him to go whichever way God told him to go. Muireach, the Earl's son...
Dates: 24 January or February 1865