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Moidart Inverness-shire Scotland

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Song entitled 'Laoi Na Ceardoch', 29 August 1883

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/80
Scope and Contents

Song entitled 'Laoi Na Ceardoch' ('Duan na Ceardach') beginning 'La dhuin eig slia Luach Le'on' collected from Mary Carmichael, aged 71, Druim a' Bhuic, Glencreran [Druimavuic, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].

Dates: 29 August 1883

Song entitled 'Oigh Chubhra Na Mara' or 'Urnaigh Mhara Chlann Raoghail', nd

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW152/19
Scope and Contents

Song entitled 'Oigh Chubhra Na Mara' or 'Urnaigh Mhara Chlann Raoghail' beginning 'Oigh chubhra na mara, Thu lan de na grasan'. The song is composed of twenty-three lines arranged into three verses of six lines each and a chorus of three lines.

Dates: nd

Story about fishing in Moidart, 29 August 1883

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/79
Scope and Contents

Story probably collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, about about how the young Domhnall nan Òrd [Donald Stewart], while living in exile with the Gobha Mhùideirt or Moidart Smith, was made to fish and did so successfully, twice. He was hidden under a washtub while the Campbells searched for him.

Dates: 29 August 1883

Story about Raghnall Sgamadail, 1883

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/198
Scope and Contents

Story about Raghnall Sgamadail 'Raol Scamadail' [Ronald [MacDonald]] from Moidart [Mùideart, Siorramachd Inbhir Nis/Inverness-shire] in which a woman knocked on the door of his bothy and asked for him by name 'Raoil Mòr'. He asked where she was from and she said that she had travelled for sixty miles and so he invited her in to eat but she 'went off when she heard she had to bless -'.

Dates: 1883