Ballymeanach Islay Argyllshire Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Address for Don[ald] Macmurdoch, Islay and accompanying note, c1892
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/95
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Address and accompanying note which reads 'Don[ald] Macmurdoch, Baile meadhonach, Portnahaven, Islay [Baile Meadhanach/Ballymeanach, Port na h-Abhainne, Ìle] good naturalist.'
Dates:
c1892
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89
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Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael probably while he lived at 31, Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, as this address is written in ink on the first folio. Written on the inside front cover but heavily scored is text which reads 'Mrs Malcolm MacLeod, [- Islay], widow of Mal[colm] MacLeod [Loch-]. The majority of the notebook contains material collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/ Islay relating folklore and natural history about the birds, fish, shellfish and animals found in and...
Dates:
1887
Note about herring and hake, June 1887
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/46
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Note collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Baile Meadhanach/Ballymeanach, Ìle/Islay, which reads 'Calmoir Herring haig - dif[ficult] to fish.' Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
June 1887
Note about place-names on Ìle/Islay, June 1887
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/55
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Note about place-names on Ìle/Islay probably collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Baile Meadhanach/Ballymeanach, which reads 'Airdbheala, Port Bheala or speala. W[est] of P[or]tnahaven Isla Cala.'
Dates:
June 1887
Note about shellfish, June 1887
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/47
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Note about shellfish collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Baile Meadhanach/Ballymeanach, Ìle/Islay, stating that 'Donnag [cockles or fish] are among stones in [the] shore' and the sizes of 'Gearran cruacach' [probably lumpfish] and 'Gearran greis'.
Dates:
June 1887
Note about the crosses at Kilchoman, June 1887
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/56
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Note probably collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Baile meadhanach/Ballymeanach, Ìle/Islay, that a criminal going between the three crosses at Kilchoman [Cille Chòmain] would be safe.
Dates:
June 1887
Note that Donald MacMhuirich lives in Bailmeanach, June 1887
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/44
Scope and Contents
Note that Donald MacMhuirich [Donald Currie] lives in Bailmeanach, [Baile Meadhanach/Ballymeanach, Ìle/Islay]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
June 1887
Note which reads 'An cleireach mac crubag Dearc luachrach lotai and sin 3 siuil mhara', June 1887
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/45
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Note collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Baile Meadhanach/Ballymeanach, Ìle/Islay, which reads 'An cleireach mac crubag Dearc luachrach lotai[dh] [th]u sin 3 siuil mhara. His sister was stung & it last[ed] thus' indicating that his sister was stung by a lizard and the sting lasted three tides or eighteen hours. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
June 1887
Note which reads 'Glasag back dark clue in shell Gìmhseag thin feet as paper.', June 1887
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/50
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Note collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Baile Meadhanach/Ballymeanach, Ìle/Islay, which reads 'Glasag back dark blue in shell Gìmhseag thin but as paper.' [This note possibly relates to birds.]
Dates:
June 1887
Rhyme beginning 'Chunna mise an Dreolla', June 1887
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/53
Scope and Contents
Rhyme probably collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Baile Meadhanach/Ballymeanach, Ìle/Islay, beginning 'Chunna mise an Dreolla, Am bogach am bac moine' .
Dates:
June 1887