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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