Beaches
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Note about Mol-garbh, 8 July 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/35
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
8 July 1870
Notes on deserted houses, archaeological sites and the geography of Tarasaigh/Taransay with accompanying sketch, 9 July 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/36
Scope and Contents
Notes on deserted houses, archaeological sites and the geography of Tarasaigh/Taransay, describing the houses at Aoi [Uidh] which had been left by families who moved to Paible [Paibeil] including 'a nice box of a house in front with one chim[ney] & plastered' and their situation as being in a 'beautiful spot'. The accompanying sketch is of Clach an Teampuill which is on Croc an Teampuill [Cnoc an Teampuill] and noted are its dimensions, that it is made of grey granite and that its...
Dates:
9 July 1870
Saint Clair's Beach, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/252
Scope and Contents
Photograph of Saint Clair's Beach with people walking along the promenade with mountains in the background in Dunedin, New Zealand in the late 19th or early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Vocabulary relating to beachcombing, 1901
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/92
Scope and Contents
Vocabulary relating to beachcombing including 'Ruilich = search, Sprà ig = Broken things, smodal, wreckage' probably collected on Barraigh/Isle of Barra. Text has been scored through.
Dates:
1901