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Tobar Uc Roige Vatersay Inverness-shire Scotland

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Subject Source: Local sources

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Notes on Cnoc an Teampuil, Tobar Chriosd and Tobar Uc Roige., 1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW107/11
Scope and Contents

Notes on Cnoc an Teampuil, Tobar Chriosd [Tobar Chrìosd] and Tobar Uc Roige, a religious site and two wells on Vatersay [Bhatarsaigh]. Referring to Cnoc an Teampuil, Carmichael notes 'When the byre was built bones and coffins were dug up. Where the old temple and cladh [graveyard] stood'. Of Tobar Chrìosd he states that water would be taken from there for sick people.

Dates: 1869
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael