Kilchiaran Islay Argyllshire Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89
Scope and Contents
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 stones at Cille Charain and accompanying sketch, 6 June 1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/60
Scope and Contents
Note about stones at Cille Charain [Cille Chiarain/Kilchiaran, Ìle/Islay] and accompanying sketch that the stones were '5 x 3 1/2' [feet] and that there were 'Sev[e]r[al] in chapel one gable up all rest down'.
Dates:
6 June 1887
Sketch of a cross [at Cille Chiarain/Kilchiarain], June 1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/61
Scope and Contents
Sketch of a cross probably at Cille Chiarain/Kilchiaran, Ìle/Islay, giving some of its dimensions.
Dates:
June 1887
Superstition about 'Slioc at Cillchiarain', June 1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/98
Scope and Contents
Superstition collected from Peggie Nic Eachain [Margaret MacEachan], pauper, from Dail, Ìle/Islay about 'Slioc[hd] at Cillchiarain' [Cille Chiarain/Kilchiaran] that 'where she is all holed third the end of the world comes - Two holes thr[ough]out already'.
Dates:
June 1887