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Lismore Argyllshire Scotland

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 136 Collections and/or Records:

Etymological note for the placename 'Tir Laidhgeann', c1893

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/85
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Etymological note for the placename 'Tir Laidhgeann', which reads 'Lathacan = Laithgeann = Tir Laidhgeann Lismore. Several saints of this name. See 121p[age] Book of Hymns.'

Dates: c1893

Etymological note on Dun Fraoin, September 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/68
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Etymological note which reads 'Dun Fraoin is so cal[led] from Fraon one of the Feinne.' [Dùn Fraoin, Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire.]

Dates: September 1870

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. Written on the inside front cover is '2/9 1870. Oban' and on the flyleaf is '[deleted: Twas] Friday 2 Sep[tember]. 1870. 12 noon from Ob[an]'. Folios 1-3r and 75r to 117v are blank. The text on folio 3v and 4r and 4v is written updside down and is later text (29 January 1875). The contents are in two distinct sections, the first being material collected on Lios Mòr/Lismore and the second being material collected in South Uist. Much of the...
Dates: 2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, c1872-1893

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. The marjority of the notebook relates to material collected in Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire but there are a number of loose leaves at the end which contain an account of a journey from Uibhist/Uist through An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye, during which time his wife, Mary is in Edinburgh and is pregnant. There are eight blank folios at the end of the notebook. Much of the material in this notebook was collected from Duncan...
Dates: c1872-1893

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1883 to 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing material collected mostly in An Apainn/Appin and Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire. A large proportion of the stories and biographical information about Appin was collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, who was known as Dòmhnall a' Bhrocair. Amongst the material collected from Dòmhnall a' Bhrocair are proverbs, sayings, customs, stories about local figures and families and historic anecdotes. The other main...
Dates: 1883 to 1887

Fragment of a song beginning 'An toir u do niean domh', 15 August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/6
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Fragment of a song collected from Donald MacGregor, Baile Garbh/Bailegarve, Lios Mòr/Lismore, beginning 'An toir u do niean domh Chail[leach] an Dudain' [Cailleach an Dùdain or Old Woman of the Dust Mill].

Dates: 15 August 1883

Fragment of a song beginning 'Cuira bho mo duil foann' and accompanying note, 2 September 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/14
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Fragment of a song beginning 'Cuira bho mo duil foam, M' fheoil a laodh anns an uir anns an [uir]' and accompanying note which states that 'A Catrina Nic Chanunaich Pt Charrain had much of this song.' [Catherine Buchanan, Port a' Charrain, Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]

Dates: 2 September 1870

Genealogical notes and stories about the Livingstone family, 4 October 1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/40
Scope and Contents Genealogical notes and stories about the Livingstone family including their connections with Kerrera, Ulva and Blantyre [Cearrara, and Ulbha, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire and Lanarkshire] and David Livingstone the explorer. There is a story about a Livingstone at Achnacree killing a deer for the King with an arrow and subsequently losing possession of Dail an eas [Achadh na Crithe and Dail an Eas/Dalness, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. Also includes a story about 'The baron who bro[ugh]t body...
Dates: 4 October 1892

List of three houses on Lismore, August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/24
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List of three houses in Lismore [Lios Mòr] at Goirteana Glasa, at Creuch and at Bile Kilchiaran [Kilcheran].

Dates: August 1883

Note about a building at Castle Chaifin [Castle Coeffin], September 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/82
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Note which reads 'Below the entrance to Castle Chaifin [Castle Coeffin, Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] was some large building some 40 y[ards] x 10 [yards].

Dates: September 1870