Bornish South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Archaeological note about ciste near Roglas, 7 September 1870
Archaeological note which reads, 'North of Roglas [Roe Glas, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] the Rev Alex[ander] Campbell priest Bornish [Bornais] saw a mile of the machair closely cover[ed] over with ciste where the wind blew away the sand.'
Archaeological notes on Kildonan and accompanying notes on Flora MacDonald and her husband, 24 May 1870
Archaeological notes on ruins at Croice near Bornish, 19 March 1874
Note on 'Foineachun' [foinneachan], 28 October 1872
Note on 'Foineachun' [foinneachan or warts] probably collected from Archibald Currie, aged forty-six, shoemaker, Iocar [Ìochdar], Uibhist a Deas/South Uist describing how an old woman in Bornish [Bornais] cured her warts using straws and multiples of nine so that there were eighty-one [straws] for each wart. These were buried in a pit until they withered and the warts were gone. The text is unclear in its meaning.
Note on the bird rùideag, 1877
Note describing the bird rùideag and its breeding to the west of Bornish [Bornais, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist].
Notes on Sorcha an Orfhuilt, 1872
Notes on Sorcha an Orfhuilt stating that Duncan Macdonald, Snaoisval [Sniseabhal/Snishival, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] said that she was the girl who went amongst the deer and that Mr Alexander Campbell, priest at Bornish [Bornais] said that she was also called 'Fionna nam Fiadh'. There are question marks besides the name 'Binneach nam Fiadh'.