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Griminish Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 14 November 1873 to 10 April 1875

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111
Scope and Contents

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. Of the ninety-three folios in the notebook, only twenty-two have been used.

Dates: 14 November 1873 to 10 April 1875

Poem entitled 'Rann Maistridh', 21 December 1885

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/56
Scope and Contents

Poem entitled 'Rann Maistridh' collected from Donald MacDonald, crofter, Griminish, Benbecula [Griminis, Beinn na Faoghla] beginning 'Thig a chuinneag thig'.

Dates: 21 December 1885

Prayer entitled 'Altachadh Leapa'', 21 December 1855

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/53
Scope and Contents

Prayer entitled 'Altachadh Leapa' beginning 'Tha mise cur m' anama 's mo chuirp' collected from Donald MacDonald, crofter, Griminish, Benbecula [Griminis, Beinn na Faoghla]. The text has been scored through in pencil and has an addition made to the text also in pencil.

Dates: 21 December 1855

Prayer entitled 'Altachadh Leapa', 21 December 1885

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/55
Scope and Contents

Prayer entitled 'Altachadh Leapa' collected from Donald MacDonald, crofter, Griminish, Benbecula [Griminis, Beinn na Faoghla] beginning 'Laidhidh mise noc, Le Moire s le Mac'. The text has been scored through in pencil and two additions to the text have been made also in pencil.

Dates: 21 December 1885

Prayer entitled 'An Urnaigh Chadail', 10 September 1885

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/51
Scope and Contents

Prayer entitled 'An Urnaigh Chadail' collected from Donald MacDonald, crofter, Griminish, Benbecula [Griminis, Beinn na Faoghla] beginning 'Tha mise noc/nis a dol a chadal'. The prayer is composed of nine lines. A number of additions have been made to the text in pencil and ink and the text has been scored through in pencil.

Dates: 10 September 1885

[Prayer] entitled 'Sloinnidh Brìde', 21 December 1885

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/54
Scope and Contents

[Prayer] entitled 'Sloinnidh Brìde' collected from Donald MacDonald, crofter, Griminish, Benbecula [Griminis, Beinn na Faoghla] beginning 'Sloinnidh ban-naomh Bride muime Chriosda, Bride nighean Dughaill duinn'. Text has been scored through in pencil.

Dates: 21 December 1885

Song entitled 'Oran Sith' and accompanying story, 21 December 1885

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/57
Scope and Contents

Song entitled 'Oran Sith' collected from Donald MacDonald, crofter, Griminish, Benbecula [Griminis, Beinn na Faoghla] beginning 'A Mhor a Mhor till ri d' mhacan'. The accompanying tale tells how Moire met a fairy who seemed to know her baby. She talked to the fairy and then left her baby and went and hid to spy on them and this is the song she heard the father sing. Additions have been made to the text in both ink and pencil

Dates: 21 December 1885

Song entitled 'Port Dho'null Mhoir 'ic Raoil Na Ceapaich' and accompanying story, 10 September 1885

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/33
Scope and Contents Song entitled 'Port Dho'null Mhoir 'ic Raoil Na Ceapaich' collected from Donald MacDonald, crofter, Griminish, Benbecula [Griminis, Beinn na Faoghla] beginning 'Marchaibh (Marsaibh?) gu h-eutrom, Togaibhidh air fraochaibh ri'. The accompanying story which tells how Donll [Domhnall] Mor Mac Raoil [Raghnaill] went to ask MacIntosh's daughter to marry him and he took twelve men with him. En route he met MacIntosh returning with a 'creach' [loot] which had been stolen from him so MacDonald...
Dates: 10 September 1885

Story about a wall seen at Poll Nan Crann, 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/212
Scope and Contents

Story about a wall seen at low tide at Poll Nan Crann, Benbecula, by people from Griminish who were cutting sea ware and were amazed at what they saw [Pol nan Crann, Griminis/Griminish, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula].

Dates: 1887