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Taransay Inverness-shire Scotland

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Notes relating to Taransay, 7 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/4
Scope and Contents Notes relating to Tarasaigh/Taransay including that Norman MacLeod mac Calum is a 'good story and Oss[ian] reciter' registered on Taransay's poor roll but living in Steòrnabhagh/Stornoway [Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis], listing a number of sites of possible archaeological interest such as Aird-nan-Ceallc, Tobar Chè, Cladh Chè and Cladh Charain, noting that Cè was a Tighearna [Lord] but Caran an unknown. He also notes that Uamh mhic Cailein or Ailein [Uamh Mhic Ailein] is about ten yeards...
Dates: 7 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Personal note relating to the cladhs [graveyards] on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 9 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/42
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Personal note relating to the cladhs [graveyards] on Tarasaigh/Taransay noting how they made him think of 'Gray's elegy' and how 'I could wish to send the cut skull to the mu[seum] but am unwill[in]g to remove it. not right I think.'

Dates: 9 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Place-name note for Taransay, 7 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/6
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Place-name note which reads 'An Dun above the houses in Taransaidh, Dun Chlach north of this. Aird Mhanuis (Manus) arable land.' [Dùn , Dùn Chlach, Àird Mhànais, Tarasaigh/Taransay]

Dates: 7 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Saying beginning 'Croc togal us Creagal conais' and accompanying vocabulary note, 8 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/31
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Saying collected on Tarasaigh/Taransay beginning 'Croc togal us Creagal conais, An Da Chroc is sona san Aird' said to have come from a 'poor woman who was driven from the place' The accompanying vocabulary note reads 'Pasgaite = Basket'.

Dates: 8 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Saying from Tarasaigh/Taransay, 7 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/8
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Saying from Tarasaigh/Taransay which reads 'Creagalconas us Croc togal [Knock Togal] do chroc is son a san Aird Marsin us Heireval [Àird Mhànais and Hearrabhal] ghaol ach far am bi na daoine tamh'.

Dates: 7 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story about Lews men being chased off Tarasaigh/Taransay, 10 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/65
Scope and Contents Story collected on Tarasaigh/Taransay telling how a boatful of men from Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis came ashore at Ru chinige [Rubha Hinnigeodha] on the west of Taransay and travelled across the island. 'The natives took a caber off tai[gh] sheac cial & met the Lews men & drove them to Sgeir Bhualta' [Sgeir a' Bhuallt], they only allowed two men to escape and they did so by swimming to Sgeir Cè and Sgeir Eowin [Sgeir Eoin] 'One of these had an arrow in his buttock and an[other] in...
Dates: 10 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story about the lack of rats on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 9 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/40
Scope and Contents Story collected from Don MacInnon [Donald MacKinnon] about the lack of rats on Tarasaigh/Taransay, telling how a Taransay man went to live in Lews [Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis] but was plagued with rats. An old woman said she could send the rats to Taransay for him which she 'greatly to his relief' did and after a a short while of being on Taransay they were all dead. MacKinnon also notes that some rats were brought ashore by fishermen but were found dead at Aird nan Ceall...
Dates: 9 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story and notes about burials and archaeological finds on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 8 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/12
Scope and Contents Story and notes about burials and archaeological finds on Tarasaigh/Taransay telling how a large, thick skull with a piece cut out of the back of it as if by a sword was seen at Teamp[ull] Charrain or Tharrain [Teampull Tharain/St Tarran's Chapel]. He describes the skull and a large skeleton found near it. He records how men and women were buried separately, the men at Teampull Tharrain and the women at Teamp[ull] Che [Teampull Chè] although the two places are fifty yards apart. The story...
Dates: 8 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

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