Death
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. Written on the inside front cover is '2/9 1870. Oban' and on the flyleaf is '[deleted: Twas] Friday 2 Sep[tember]. 1870. 12 noon from Ob[an]'. Folios 1-3r and 75r to 117v are blank. The text on folio 3v and 4r and 4v is written updside down and is later text (29 January 1875). The contents are in two distinct sections, the first being material collected on Lios Mòr/Lismore and the second being material collected in South Uist. Much of the...
Dates:
2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875
Story about the saints connected to Lios Mòr/Lismore, 2 September 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/2
Scope and Contents
Story collected from Duncan Carmichael on the boat from An t-Òban/Oban to Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire about the saints connected to Lismore, telling how Calumcille, Moaluag and Ordhean [Calum Cille/Columba, Moluag and Oran] were brothers who were competing for the possession of Lismore. Moluag won by cutting his finger off and throwing it to shore and consequently Calum Cille went to Iona. It also tells of Oran's burial alive and how on the fourth day after he'd been...
Dates:
2 September 1870
Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1860 to c1866
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112
Scope and Contents
Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. The majority of the volume has been used but intermittently there are groups of blank folios. Carmichael appears to have written in the book in the 1860s creating sections of different genres at different stages in the volume, with pages left blank in between to fill up appropriately. In about 1875 he has then used some of these blank pages to transcribe notes and stories but has not kept to the genres sections he initially created....
Dates:
1860 to c1866