Paibeil North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Address for a Mal[colm] Macdonald, c1893
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/19
Scope and Contents
Address for a Mal[colm] Macdonald originally from Paible, being 29 Lutton Place, [Edinburgh].
Dates:
c1893
Story about a seal in the form of a woman and accompanying song, c1875
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/39
Scope and Contents
Story about a seal in the form of a woman which tells how a number of seals were caught on Taisgeir [Eilean Hasgeir/Haskeir Island] and a woman in Paible [Paibeil, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] was boiling the seal's bones when another woman came in. The first woman did not recognise her but offered her a seat but she stood staring at the pot. All of a sudden she started singing a song beginning 'Smeirig s an tir s smeirig san tir is, (Far) n ichear na daoine a rioc a bhidh'. After this she...
Dates:
c1875