Geography
Found in 138 Collections and/or Records:
Story about a woman stealing a kettle from the fairies and accompanying notes, September 1872
Story about Captain Scott on Isle of Barra and Mingulay, 1867
Story about the sea at Kirkibost and Baleshear, November 1873
Story about the sea at Kirkibost and Baleshear [Eilean Chirceboist/Kirkibost Island, Baile Sear/Baleshare, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] that there used to be a series of lakes there until the sea broke the divide and that houses were seen under the sea on the south side of Kirkibost.
Story relating to Tai an Deora and Bachuil, September 1870
Story that Tai an Deora [Taigh an Deòra] was where the old house of Bachuil stood along with a kiln and barn but that 'Iain Baran' lost Bachuil about sixty years before [c.1810] [both places Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].
Two stories about Ruary an tartair [Roderick MacNeil] and accompanying notes about Barraigh/Isle of Barra], 1867
Verse beginning 'A shiubhlas an rod mar a bheann' and accompanying archaeological note, 5 April 1872
Verse beginning 'A shiubhlas an rod mar a bheann' and accompanying archaeological note collected from Hector MacIosaig [Hector MacIsaac], Kean Langabhat, Iochdar [Ceann Langabhat, Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. The note states that 'Roilig ni Ruari is a raon bet[ween] two maolads with a big stone pillar...this pillar is Ni[ghea]n Ruari.'
Vocabulary for 'faoileann' [a reef or bank] and accompanying saying, 1887
Vocabulary for 'faoileann' [a reef or bank] and accompanying saying which reads 'Sinn in shuidhe air an fhaoil[eann] sinn gun fhaoilt gun fhurran'.
Vocabulary note for 'Gea', 'Leig' and 'Bulgach', c1892
Vocabulary note which reads 'Gea = Boat hook S[aint] Kilda, Leig = Suil-chruthaich = Marsh, Bulgach Psoriasis.'