Cemeteries
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = PJM
Use also for graveyards.
Found in 92 Collections and/or Records:
Personal note relating to the cladhs [graveyards] on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 9 July 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/42
Scope and Contents
Personal note relating to the cladhs [graveyards] on Tarasaigh/Taransay noting how they made him think of 'Gray's elegy' and how 'I could wish to send the cut skull to the mu[seum] but am unwill[in]g to remove it. not right I think.'
Dates:
9 July 1870
Photographs relating to Willesden Borough Council, 1935-1938
Series
Identifier: PJM/WBC/C
Scope and Contents
Photographs relating to Willesden Borough Council consists of:
4 black and white photographic prints (12cm x 16cm) of Willesden Cemetery Keeper's House 1938
2 black and white negatives (8cm x 11cm) of Willesden Cemetery Keeper's House 1938
2 black and white photographic prints (16cm x 21cm) of the exterior of the Electricity showrooms on Willesden Lane. 1 is inscribed by...
Dates:
1935-1938
Plans relating to Willesden Borough Council, 1936-1938
Series
Identifier: PJM/WBC/B
Scope and Contents
Plans relating to Willesden Borough Council consists of:
Percy Road School, Kilburn, proposed alterations and additions (6 plans), 1938
nursery school at Curzon Crescent, NW10 (4 plans), 1937
house at Ridge, Herts (2 plans), 1937
Municipal Hospital: extension to existing nurses home (1 plan), 1938
Wesley Road School: proposed gymnasium...
Dates:
1936-1938
Song beginning 'A Sheum ic Eoin horo ghiulan' and accompanying story, 22 May 1869 and 16 June 1869
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/22
Scope and Contents
Song beginning 'A Sheum[ais] ic Eoin horo ghiulan, Is gorach [th]u horo ghiulain' collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 94 years, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay. The song is composed of eighteen lines. The accompanying story tells how Seumas mac Eoin ic an Ollamh Ilich or Seumas Sasunach fell in love with a married woman on Mingulay and poisoned her husband. An old woman saw him out one day in great distress and on being questioned he told her that a cloud was passing which was full of plague and would...
Dates:
22 May 1869 and 16 June 1869
Song entitled 'Donnacha mac Chuilean' and accompanying notes, 27 May 1869 and 16 June 1869
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/56
Scope and Contents
Song entitled 'Donnacha mac Chuilean' collected from Mary MacMillan, Lionacuidhe/Liniquie, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist beginning 'Na hoieabh o hoille bhi, Na ho ibh a hao ri haoro'. The accompanying notes state that the first part of the song relates to a girl who lost her snood and the second part to the encroachment of the sea. The caibeal or chapel referred to are those at Howmore South Uist [Tobha Mòr, Uibhist a Deas], with 'Hough-more said to mean Tung-Moire Mòr being a dau[gh]t[er] of...
Dates:
27 May 1869 and 16 June 1869
Song entitled 'Laoi na h-Innge' and accompanying story, 16 September 1890
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/13
Scope and Contents
Song entitled 'Laoi na h-Innge' collected from Iain MacPhadruig [Iain mac Phàdraig or John MacInnes, Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] on 16 September 1890 beginning 'Fhuair mo lean[nan] mi n chadail, S mi ga[bha]il fad am muigh'. The song is composed of twenty-three lines. The accompanying story tells how a gentleman's daughter fell in love with a poor man's son but were not allowed to marry so they eloped. A reward was offered for her return. Her lover brought her...
Dates:
16 September 1890
Stories about Donl Rua, Somhairle Rua and Am Piocar Mor, 14 July 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/92
Scope and Contents
Stories collected from Roderick MacKenzie, carpenter, aged 68 years, Sruthan Ruadh, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist about Don[u]l Rua [Dòmhnall Ruadh], Somhairle Rua[dh] and Am Piocar Mòr. The first story tells how eighteen of the MacVicar ministers were buried in Caibeal Baile Raghnaill and that Dòmhnall Ruadh had permission to bury and build a wall around them but when the road was built he refused to let MacVicars be buried there. The second tells how Somhairle Ruadh was the son of 'nin...
Dates:
14 July 1870
Story about a battle between two tribes, 29 August 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/66
Scope and Contents
Story about a battle between two tribes one of which was called 'Clann ic ille ruitich' or 'The Reds' at Tobar an Sùl [An Apainn/Appin] in which The Reds killed the other tribe who were resting. Those killed were buried there in good soil but wolves and foxes dug them up. Probably collected from Donald MacColl [foxhunter, Glencreran, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]
Dates:
29 August 1883
Story about a daughter killed by her father for visiting her lover, August 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/20
Scope and Contents
Story about the 'daughter of the caistealan' who was killed by her father for going to visit her lover while she was crossing Doirlinn [Bernera Island, Lios Mòr/Lismore]. She was buried in Cladh a' Ghleann and Carmichael notes that there is another graveyard at Pillebhudh [Pollbhuidhe] 'on a beaut[i]ful knoll'.
Dates:
August 1883
Story about a fairy cup, 12 July 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/81
Scope and Contents
Story about a fairy cup collected from Kenneth Morrison, Nishishee, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris telling how Bruth Loscintir [Bruaichean Losgaintir/Luskentyre Banks] are 'Sithein' [fairy hills] at the tunga or tomb Buaile rosmail [Buaile Rosamail]. A young man saw the fairy hill open and inside there was music and dancing. He was handed a cup which he took but went outside with it and was chased down the road by the fairies, who called out after him a verse beginning, 'Nach lua[th] Lurag nach...
Dates:
12 July 1870