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Haclait Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Note about Eilean an Du-chonnaidh, March 1874

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/76
Scope and Contents

Note about Eilean an Du-chonnaidh, that is used to be an island and was seen by men still alive as such, that it is 'now a strand with two pyramidal remnants of moss standing over the clam shingle near Creagorry - between the point of Aird an eoin and Hacleit' [Creag Ghoraidh, Àrd-an-eoin and Haclait/Hacklet all Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula]. 'Du-chonnaidh' is described as fresh or green brush wood.

Dates: March 1874

Note about lays which John MacLellan knows, c1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/72
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Note which reads 'John MacLellan 82 a little old man at Hacleit Creag [Haclait/Hacklet and Creag Ghoraidh/Creagorry, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula] has the lay of the Buileartach [Muilearteach] & the lay of the Amadan Mor fuller than I ever heard them before'.

Dates: c1869

Poem entitled 'A Mhuillearstach' and accompanying notes, 20 October 1871

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW119/33
Scope and Contents Poem entitled 'A Mhuillearstach' collected from Donald Maclellan or Donl mac Iain bhain ic Neil, aged 84 years S[outh] Hacleit, Benbecula, S[out] Uist [Haclait/Hacklet, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] beginning ''S la dha'n Fheinn eir Tullach Eirinn, 'S i g amharc Eirinn ma timicheall'. The song is composed of two hundred and four lines, two of which have been written in pencil transversely, probably after the whole text had been written. A preamble to the story is...
Dates: 20 October 1871

Reminder to 'See the old woman at Hacleit Mairearad NicLeoid for old songs', c1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/17
Scope and Contents

Reminder to 'See the old woman at Hacleit [Haclait/Hacklet, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula] Mairearad NicLeoid [Margaret MacLeod] for old songs'.

Dates: c1872

Story about Beinnvòr, 10 April 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW119/51
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Story collected from an unnamed female informant at Hacleit, Benbecula [Haclait/Hacklet, Beinn na Faoghla] which reads 'None but Clann ic Gille ria'aich could live at Beinnvòr [Beinn Mhòr, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] all killed till the rann was comp[osed] aft[er] that all safe. '

Dates: 10 April 1872

Story about Sithein a Bhealaich, 10 April 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW119/52
Scope and Contents

Story collected from an unnamed female informant at Haclait/Hacklet, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula about Sithein a Bhealaich [] a fairy hill which the informant claims she herself once saw alight one night.

Dates: 10 April 1872