Deer

Story about eagles eating a wounded hind, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/114

Scope and Contents

Story about eagles eating a wounded hind, at Carn ban [An Càrn Bàn/Cairnbaan, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] that they cut the hind's artery and were eating at its chest flesh. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

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

Story about Iain Muideartach's deerhound, 30 October 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/110

Scope and Contents Story about how Iain Muideartach's [Iain Mùideartach or John MacDonald of Clanranald] gave fishing rights of Auin t-Eile up to Lochseille [Abhainn Seile/River Shiel and Loch Seile/Loch Shiel, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] and in exchange for a deerhound. The deerhound was exceptional being '3½ f[ee]t high & 1½ deep in chest', it ate a whole stirk one night and it also 'chased a stag came up to it at Auin Dheidain [Abhainn Dhèabh] struck it in the hind leg with his tale (sic) & broke...

Dates: 30 October 1872

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

The Hunting of the Stag, 1935

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/6/1/1

Scope and Contents

"The Hunting of the Stag", is an article written by Edith Ward about the cruelty related to stag hunting. The article contains descriptions of stag hunts and sources which illustrates the suffering and injuries caused to both deer and dogs in the process of hunting.

This publication was published by the National Society for the Abolition of Cruel Sports.

Dates: 1935