Baile-fo-thuath Pabbay Harris Inverness-shire Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Note about gravestones and tree stumps, February 1874
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/60
Scope and Contents
Note about gravestones, which are 'on end in sand on w[est] side of Cairnish bay' [Cairinis/Carinish, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] and tree stumps which are visible at low water on Pabbay [Pabaigh] which are two feet in diameter.
Dates:
February 1874
Notes about evidence of trees and agricultural land subsumed by water, March 1874
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/81
Scope and Contents
Notes about evidence of trees and agricultural land subsumed by water, describing large tree roots embedded in peat at Rubhoisinis, Bearnary [Rubha Bhoisnis, Beàrnaraigh/Berneray], cut by Tasgal Macthasgail [MacAskill]; lobsters sheltering in the crevices of tree roots at 'Ruch [-] nis' Pabaigh/Pabbay; trees having fallen at Tao a bhaile-fo-thua [Rubh' a' Bhaile Fo Thuath, Pabaigh/Pabbay]; and how 'men now living (1873) saw corn growing where now land is seen only at low water between isle +...
Dates:
March 1874