North Rona Ross and Cromarty Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1873
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW115
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael principally containing material collected on Eilean Leòdhais/ Isle of Lewis. The main informants were Angus Gunn and his daughter Ann MacDonald from Dail bho Thuath/North Dell and Dail bho Dheas/South Dell respectively, who sang songs relating to Christmas and explained associated customs. They also told Carmichael stories about the temples found around Nis/Ness and about St Ronan. In addition, the notebook contains notes on winter customs,...
Dates:
1873
Note about Leac na Gruag, 27 October 1873
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW115/23
Scope and Contents
Note about Leac na Gruagaich which reads 'Leac na Gruag[aich] on top of Li in Roney [Rònaidh/North Rona, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] 3 holes in it & a mug of milk put in not a drop in the morn[in]g'.
Dates:
27 October 1873
Note about the people of Rona, 15 December 1885
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/306
Scope and Contents
Note about the people of Rona [Rònaigh/North Rona] taken from John MacCulloch's The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland that they are Roman Catholic, that each summer a boat is sent to Lewis [Eilean Leòdhais] to the Earl of Seaforth with 'the excresence of above thirty souls', something which the islanders 'exce[e]d[ingly] bewail'. Their annual payment to the Earl is 'some quantity of meal stitched up in sheeps skins and feathers of seafowls'. It is noted that...
Dates:
15 December 1885
Note entitled 'N[orth]. Rona', 15 December 1885
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/304
Scope and Contents
Note entitled 'N[orth]. Rona' taken from John MacCulloch's The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland containing a description of the size and appearance of North Rona [Rònaigh], including the height of cliffs. He notes that Saint Ronan is the patron saint of the seas and that Kenneth MacCagie had to stay there for 8 years. The island had no peats and no water except for holes in the rocks. The description of the adjacent island of Barr or Sulisker [Sula Sgeir] is...
Dates:
15 December 1885
Story about a man from E òropaidh who went to Rònaidh and his sister, 27 October 1873
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW115/24
Scope and Contents
Story about a man from Eòropaidh/Eoropie, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis who went to Rònaidh/North Rona. The story tells how he was fed up with women quarrelling, prayed to God for a place of his own and was taken to Rònaidh by a whale. When the whale landed, the seals and otters made scraping marks in the rocks at a place called 'Sgriob nam biast'. The man's sister [Brianain] wished to follow him and ended up on Sula Sgeir where, on a clear day, she could see her brother. The text of the...
Dates:
27 October 1873
Story about a woman searching for a lamb and ending up on North Rona, 27 October 1873
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW115/22
Scope and Contents
Story about a woman searching for a lamb but being lifted by the fairies and ending up on North Rona [Rònaidh/Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty].
Dates:
27 October 1873
Story about Alexander Mac Iain ic Leoid and his wife being stranded on Rona, 10 July 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/64
Scope and Contents
Story telling how Alexander Mac Iain 'ic Leòid [MacLeod] from An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye but living at Aoi [Uidh, Tarasaigh/Taransay], was tacksman of St Kilda [Hiorta] and set out to collect his 'rent grain' from St Kilda with his wife Barbara ni Dho[nmhuil] ic Iain oig [née Campbell] and a boatful of skin sacks. The weather turned bad so that they had to throw most of the sacks out and eventually they found themselves stranded on 'Ronai an t-saimh N[orth] W[est] of the Butt'...
Dates:
10 July 1870
Story about Brianail and Sula Sgeir, 27 October 1873
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW115/8
Scope and Contents
Story about Brianail, probably collected from Angus Gunn or Ann MacDonald née Gunn, Dail bho Thuath/North Dell, Nis/Ness, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis, in which Brianail, sister of St Ronan, went to Sula Sgeir [Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] because Ronan had commented on her ankle and so she went where she could not see the smoke from his house 'theid mi far nach faic mise ceo do thaighe'.The text is much abbreviated and unclear. The story also notes that St Ronan built a temple to his...
Dates:
27 October 1873
Story about Mac Rìgh Lochlainn, 27 October 1873
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW115/20
Scope and Contents
Story about Mac Rìgh Lochlainn, that he was buried on Rònaidh/North Rona [Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] without his head.
Dates:
27 October 1873
Story about sithichean [fairy hills] in Ness district, 27 October 1873
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW115/12
Scope and Contents
Story about sithichean [fairy hills] in Ness district [Nis, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis] and that they fell down when the fairies came out to hear 'ceol an t' Satain' [Satan's music?]. It adds that the fairies are also fir-chlis [the northern lights]. Carmichael notes that two other long stories were relayed one about 'Conn Dearg Torcal Oighre & Torc[al] Canallach [Conanach]' [MacLeods of Eòropaidh/Eoropie] and the other about how Rònaidh/North Rona was won and lost, but the details of...
Dates:
27 October 1873