Dornie Ross and Cromarty Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Hymn beginning 'Fhir a chruthaich fhir a chriu' and accompanying note, 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/18
Scope and Contents
Hymn beginning 'Fhir a chruthaich fhir a chriu' collected from Captain Alexander Matheson, shipmaster, Doirni, Ceanntaile [An Dòrnaidh/Dornie, Cinn Tàile/Kintail, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but written at Creagorry [Creag Ghoraidh, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula] on 11 August 1875. The text has been altered in both pen and pencil including a pencil tick against every verse. The note states that the hymn is 'obscure and evidently imperfect' and that Captain Matheson heard it from an old...
Dates:
1883
Jacobite song entitled ['Duan tha An Cur an Seumas'], 23 September 1909
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/156
Scope and Contents
Jacobite song entitled ['Duan tha An Cur an Seumas'] collected from Miss Betsy Matheson, Dornie [An Dòirnidh, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] beginning 'Gun d[text missing] Bith caman ghlas a [-]'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
23 September 1909
Song entitled 'Tiomanadh Ghoill mhic Mhoirne', 22 October 1864
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/56
Scope and Contents
Song entitled 'Tiomanadh Ghoill mhic Mhoirne' [Goll mac Morne's Promise] collected from Fearchar Mac Rath [Farquhar MacRae], Doirni, Ceanntaill Loch-ais [An Dòrnaidh/Dornie, Cinn Tàile/Kintail, Lochaillse/Lochalsh, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] on 10 July 1862. Carmichael has written in 'Fearchar(?)' in pencil in the gap he'd left before writing 'Mac Rath' indicating uncertainty as to the informant's first name. The song begins 'Iarraigeam dlu ri m' bhean, Iarraigeam ri m' cheann' and is...
Dates:
22 October 1864