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Note which reads 'Places where holes for Soll (soul) [sole] on east side of bun L[och] ephort Ruheva[?) at B[ali]vanaich below Nunton & out at the baigh on east side B[en]becula' [Locheport, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist, Ruabhal/Rueval, Baile Mhanaich/Balivanich, Baile nan Cailleach/Nunton all Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula].

Scope and Contents Song entitled 'Duan Na Ceardach' collected from Iain Donullach [John MacDonald], Lochephort, Uist T[uath] [Loch Euphort/Locheport, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] on 2 October 1865, beginning 'La dhuinn air Luachair Leothain, An ceathrar chronan a bhuidhean'. The song is composed of sixty-five lines. The song tells how Fionn and seven of his men were walking in the hills when they saw a dark man with one leg. He enchanted them to follow him over every sort of terrain but Daorghlas (later known...

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Song entitled 'Duan na Ceardach' [The Song of the Smithy] collected from Iain Donullach [John MacDonald] Lochephort [Loch Euphort/Locheport, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist]. The song is composed of sixty-nine lines.

Scope and Contents Song entitled 'Tala na Mna Si' [Taladh na Man Sìth] collected from Mairi Dhonullach Lochephort [Loch Euphort/Locheport, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] beginning Hug og hug aoireach, bean og sa bhail'. The song is composed of forty-three lines. The accompanying story tells how a woman left her child in a cradle and when she returned it was gone. On searching for the child a bean-shì [fairy woman' was heard singing the song in a siein [sìthean or fairy hill]. Some amendments have been made to the...

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Story entitled 'Bas Osgair' [The Death of Oscar] and accompanying note collected from Iain Donnullach [John MacDonald], Lochephort [Loch Euphort/Locheport, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist]. Note states that he heard 'these duans from Ruari MacCuinn [Roderick MacQuien] who lived at Malacleit [Malaclete] and who had a free piece of land there from the proprietor for his duans'.