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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 141 Collections and/or Records:

Notes on the situation of Tarasaigh/Taransay houses and placename note, 8 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/28
Scope and Contents

Notes on the situation of Tarasaigh/Taransay houses stating that some are supposed to be built over tungas [tombs], connecting the placename Tunng or Tongue, Sutherland [Tunga, Cataibh] with it and noting that Àird nan Ceall is to be found at 'the points of land S[outh] W[est] of the temples.'

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

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

Observations made on a boat journey between Tarbert and Isle of Taransay, 7 August 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/3
Scope and Contents Observations made on a boat journey in Loch Tarbert/Loch an Tairbeairt, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris, describing the scenery around the loch including 'fine high mountains', the island of Iosaigh, whch is 'like Iosai at Dun an Tarcul is a high hill on the point of Loscintir' [possibly Aoineag Tarcall], that 'Boisdale on s[outh] side [of] L[och] Tarbert [is] a coire deep & pretty' [Bìtheasdail], noting 'Yo'aveag & Yo'a'vor' on each side of the corrie [Geodha Bheag and Geodha Mhòr] and...
Dates: 7 August 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Or Ms 247: بهجته العالم Bahjat al-‘ālam, undated (original text compiled 18th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 247
Scope and Contents

A copy of a work on general geography by Ḥakīm Mahārat-Khān Iṣfahānī, who completed it some time after 1124 A.H. (1712 C.E). The work is principally based upon the geographical and biographical encyclopaedia Haft-Iqlīm by Amīn Aḥmad Rāzī (compiled 16th cent. C.E.).


Frontispieces illuminated with gold.

Dates: undated (original text compiled 18th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 248: معلومات الآفاق Ma‘lūmāt al-āfāq, undated (original text compiled 18th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 248
Scope and Contents This is a detached portion taken from the geographical work of the same name, which was written after the death of Mughal Emperor ‘Ālamgīr (d. 1118 A.H., 1707 C.E), by Sayyid Amīn al-Dīn Khān b. Abū al-Makārim Amīr-Khān al-Ḥusaynī al-Harawī. It contains brief accounts of the titulature of the Emperor, the Princes, the Princesses, and the nobles of the Court of Dehli. Brief references to the Ṣūbahs (provinces), areas, revenues, distances between various...
Dates: undated (original text compiled 18th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Papers of George Goudie Chisholm

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-68
Scope and Contents The Papers of George Goudie Chisholm include dictates of Professor Masson (Rhetoric and the History of English Literature) taken by Chisholm; other notes and essays on a variety of geographical topics; calculations and statistics; terms and notes for his Gazetteer (1895); notes on the construction of maps for Handbook of commercial geography (1889); and, notes, queries, and heads of paragraphs for his school geographies....
Dates: 1867-1930
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Place-name note for Loch ghro'avig, 10 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/61
Scope and Contents

Place-name note which reads 'Loch gho'avig w[est] of Leosvig' [Bàgh Ghòbhaig and Loch Leosavay both Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris].

Dates: 10 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
Scope and Contents

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

Placename note and accompanying story fragments, August 1886

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/43
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Placename note and accompanying story fragments which reads 'Uiridh = Sgliff = Terrace as Uiridh Ailean nan Sop in Cairn Burg mor [Càrn na Burgh Mòr/Cairn na Burgh More]. When he jumped down when chased. Bail chlarsair clarsair had this for his clarsaireac[hd].'

Dates: August 1886
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Placename note for 'An t Oda Beag' and 'An t Oda Mor', 1894

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

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