Geography
Found in 141 Collections and/or Records:
Note about Loch Coire an Lochain, October 1892
Note about Loch Coire an Lochain, that it is the highest and biggest tarn in Scotland and is situated in Braeriach [Bràigh Riabhach, Siorramachd Inbhir Nis/Inverness-shire]. Text has been scored through in pencil.
Note about Lon na straioc, September 1870
Note about Lon na straioc which reads 'There are peop[le] living who saw the run [ruin?] of Lon na straioc down to Tai phuill instead of now down Alltaogain.' [Lòn na Straioc, Taigh Phuill, Allt Aogain, all Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]
Note about marks in a rock at Glac a' Bhodaich, South Uist, c1872
Note about marks in a rock at Glac a' Bhodaich, South Uist [Uibhist a Deas]. The rock is at Glac a Bhodaich and is described as a 'flat sunfaced rock' with two marks 'as if done by a child a few y[ea]rs old in consistant mud - toes quite dist[inct]'. It also describes the situation of the rock.
Note about Mol-garbh, 8 July 1870
Note about Mol-garbh [Mol Garbh, Tarasaigh/Taransay] describing it as a 'remarkable inst[ance] of the pow[er] of the waves in heap[ing] up a beach' and comparing the height of the beach with the mol on the isthmus.
Note about Mount's Bay, Cornwall, November 1873
Note about Mount's Bay, Cornwall that it has 'sunk much' and that Carmichael 'saw this when visiting St Michael's Mount'. He adds a reminder to 'See Johnson's remarks about Coll' [Cola, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]
Note about 'Ob nan Currach', 17 September 1909
Note about 'Ob nan Currach' [Òb nan Curach, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] probably collected from John Fraser, crofter, Balgy [Balgaidh, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty], age 69, which states that it was 'just below the Manse of Comaraich [A' Chomraich/Applecross] - a lagoon now grass rushes and sealastair [irises]'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Note about peats on Miùghlaigh/Mingulay, 1867
Note about peats from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay stating that the peats are bad and scarce in Mingulay ''They are simp[ly] the surface soil cut off the rocks'. Stacks of peats at Biola Creag [Bual na Creige/Biulacraig] are mentioned though it is 'a dan[gerous] place for people to be working'. People from Bearnara [Beàrnaraigh/Berneray] cut their peats on Mingulay and Mingulay people build peat-stacks 'round with stones as they do on St Kilda [Hiorta]'.
Note about place-names around Loch Tangasdail, 1901
Note about place-names around Loch Tangasdail [Barraigh/Isle of Barra] including An Lèig [Loch an Doirlinn] 'the lakelet below Loch Tangastal', Abhuinn Bhan [Abhainn Bhàn], which runs from Loch Tangasdal to the sea and Abhuinn nam breac [Allt nam Breac], which 'comes into Loch Tangastal from the west'.
Note about places and natural history on Loch Etive, c1892
Note about places and natural history on Loch Etive, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire including that Port Luinge Mhic Dhughail is close to Ru-na-Creaige and that there was a building on E[ilean] Uisleachan [Port Luinge Mhic Dhughaill, Rubha na Creige and Eilean Uisneachan]. Carmichael also describes long stepping stones like eels and 'ducks of long bills nesting in these isles'. He also mentions Leac-nam ban nigheadadaireac (sic) [Leac nam Ban Nigheadaireachd] as relating to washer-women.
Note about places around Loch Nell, 1884
Note about places around Loch Nell [Loch nan Eala, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] including Eilean Nighean, Loch Nell House, Croc a Chronain and Loch na Dunach [Cnoc a' Chrònain, Loch na Dùnach]. It states that Eilean Nighean Loch na h-Eala was a hiding pace for a girl [unnamed], that the island had trees and it was beautiful. Loch Nell House 'stood on east side in beaut[iful] hollow under Pretty spot'. The note also mentions 'Bodaich Thorr an Tuirc' and 'Muinntir Srontoilleir'.