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Poolewe Ross and Cromarty Scotland

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Charm entitled 'Casgadh beim sula', 13 September 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/112
Scope and Contents

Charm entitled 'Casgadh beim sula' collected from Alexander Cameron 'Bàrd Thùrnaig', Poll-iùbh [Poolewe, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] beginning 'Deanam-sa dhuit eolas gu casg beum-sula'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 13 September 1909

Charm entitled 'Eolas fiolair-fionn' and accompanying note, 13 September 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/113
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Charm entitled 'Eolas fiolair-fionn' collected from Alexander Cameron 'Bàrd Thùrnaig', Poll-iùbh [Poolewe, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] beginning 'Mharbhainn dubhag is mharbhainn doirbheag' and accompanying note. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 13 September 1909

Charm entitled 'Ora sgocha feithe', 13 September 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/111
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Charm entitled 'Ora sgocha feithe' collected from Alexander Cameron 'Bàrd Thùrnaig', Poll-iùbh [Poolewe, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] beginning 'Esan a mharcaich gu stolda'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 13 September 1909

Fragment of a story entitled 'Cuckoo', June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/116
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Fragment of a story entitled 'Cuckoo', collected from Dun[can] Ceàm [Duncan Kemp], Cove, Poolewe [Poll-iùbh, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty]. The story tells how while dismantling a cairn in Lochadring, Geàrrloch [Loch an Draing, Gairloch] he found a bird, which looked dead but revived and so he put it back in the cairn. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Note about Fenian placenames with associated verse and vocabulary, c1866

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW104/13
Scope and Contents Note, probably collected from Alexander MacKenzie, Uisgebhagh/Uiskevagh, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula, about Fenian placenames with associated verse and vocabulary. MacKenzie states that Gleann na Tullach is in Polliu [Gleann Tùlacha and Poll-iù/Poolewe, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty], that Diarmaid's grave is there and that his two white dogs were buried with him one at each foot. On top of the hill there is a place called 'Suicheachan Fhinn' and on the north side of this is Gleann-na-Muic...
Dates: c1866

Notes on Fenian placenames and associated poems, c1866

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW104/24
Scope and Contents Notes probably collected from Alexander MacKenzie, Uisgebhagh/Uiskevagh, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula, on Fenian placenames and associated poems including a verse each from Laoidh Dhiarmaid and Laoidh Mhanuis. MacKenzie describes Gleann-na- tullach and Gleann-na-muice [Gleann Tùlacha, possibly Pollan na muice and Poll-iù/Poolewe, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] as being to the south and to the north of Suidheachan Fhinn, where Fenians used to hunt and where Fionn sat 'dar bha Diarmad a ruith...
Dates: c1866

Story about John Francis Campbell speaking to a girl in Gaelic in Poolewe, c1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/83
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Story telling how when a young John Francis Campbell lived in Pool House at Poolewe [Poll-iùbh, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] he met a girl who was carrying seaweed in a creel. In Gaelic she said 'A Dhia nach robh thu posda agam!' [Lord! If only you were my husband!'] and was so taken aback when he replied in Gaelic that she dropped her creel and ran away and never went near the house again.

Dates: c1892