Minginish Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Placename note for 'An t Oda Beag' and 'An t Oda Mor', 1894
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/197
Scope and Contents
Placename note which reads 'An t Oda Beag An t Oda Mor in Mingnish Skye near the sea.' [Minginis/Minginish, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]
Dates:
1894
Story about a Bean Nithidh [washerwoman], January 1871
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/158
Scope and Contents
Story about a man in Sgir Mhiongais in Skye, possibly Ruandunain [Minginis/Minginish, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye], who met a bean-nighe [washer-woman] who gave him a gri'eagag [griogag or bead] and told him that as long as he kept it he would be happy. This happened but one day his brother put on his vest for church and discovered the griogag sewn into the vest. He looked at it losely then raised it up but when he lowered his hand it had disappeared. It was never found and the man...
Dates:
January 1871