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Taransay Harris Inverness-shire Scotland

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:

Note about a quarry on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 10 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/48
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Note about a quarry on Tarasaigh/Taransay which reads 'Near Uamh Mhic Cailein [possibly Uamh Mhic Ailein] is a quarry of flags as fine as any of the Caithness flags. It c[o]u[l]d be worked to advantage. Flags were taken from here to Fincastle.'

Dates: 10 July 1870

Note about a sawpit on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 8 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/17
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Note about a sawpit on Tarasaigh/Taransay that according to Alexander Carmichael it was 'The best saw pit I have ever seen' and describing its dimensions and situation on the island.

Dates: 8 July 1870

Note about a smack built by Ranald MacDonald, 8 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/20
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Note about a smack built by Ranald MacDonald, [sheep farmer, Tarasaigh/Taransay], who had never built a boat before, describing it as a 'Fine decked smack...as finely finish[ed] as if by a thorough carp[enter].'

Dates: 8 July 1870

Note about deer horns and roots found on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 8 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/15
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Note about deer horns and roots found on Tarasaigh/Taransay including that the deer horns were very large at twelve feet, that Mr Ran[ald] MacDonald had seen moss and roots of trees at low water mark below the houses on the island and that 'Toots of trees are on the tops of the hills here.'

Dates: 8 July 1870

Note about Gaisgeir, 9 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/38
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Note about Gaisgeir [Gàisgeir/Gasker] that it is a small island where about thirty ewes are kept as they thrive on the many plants that grow there describing the sheep as 'extra fat weigh 80 90 & 100 lbs'. Lambs are often taken from there to Tarasaigh/Taransay but 'they wither & die'.

Dates: 9 July 1870

Note about Mol-garbh, 8 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/35
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Note about Mol-garbh [Mol Garbh, Tarasaigh/Taransay] describing it as a 'remarkable inst[ance] of the pow[er] of the waves in heap[ing] up a beach' and comparing the height of the beach with the mol on the isthmus.

Dates: 8 July 1870

Note about Sorchan a Ghille Hirstich and accompanying vocabulary note, 8 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/34
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Note about Sorchan a Ghille Hirstich [Sorachan a' Ghille Hiortaich] describing it as a big stone halfway between Paible and Aoi [Paibeil and Uidh, Tarasaigh/Taransay] with a comfortable seat in the back of it. The accompanying vocabulary note reads 'Eiteag. Eiteag na beinne = Spar rock'.

Dates: 8 July 1870

Note about Taransay House and theland quality on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 10 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/62
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Note about Taransay House, Tarasaigh/Taransay describing its dimensions, construction and estimating it to have been built about three hundred years before [c1570]. Also mentioned is the 'fine large garden [of] good soil but ill cultivated' which leads on to a description of the land quality on the island, the presence of lazybeds and the 'Beautiful grazing...espe[cially] at Aoi Paible and Rà good water' [Uidh, Paibeil and Raah].

Dates: 10 July 1870

Note on units of measurement used on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 10 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/54
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Note collected from Mrs MacDonald, Tarasaigh/Taransay stating that the peck is still in use there, that she will keep to the 'cleac[hd]anean coir a bhann sa linn fhe[in]' for measuring, noting the relative quantities of the old peck at three gallons, and that the Lews [Lewis] peck was four gallons, something which Carmichael would have to check. Carmichael also notes that the customs for paying servants is the same in Taransay as it is in Uibhist/Uist.

Dates: 10 July 1870

Note praising the Earl of Dunmore's family, 10 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/55
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Note praising the Earl of Dunmore's family for the improvements they have made to Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris since they purchased it and in particular the Dowager Countess for establishing 'schools of var[ious] kinds which have affected much'.

Dates: 10 July 1870