Cemeteries
Found in 92 Collections and/or Records:
Story about the death of [Hugh] MacKay of Rinns of Islay, June 1887
Story about the King of Spain's daughter and MacLean of Duart, 1867
Story about the MacLeods and Stewarts as proprietors of Harris, 10 July 1870
Story about the Nic Gillemhicheil [Carmichael] ghost, September 1870
Story about the Nic Gillemhicheil [NicGilleMhìcheil/Carmichael] ghost that she haunted the Glen faochan family by walking to and fro between her two tolamain [tolmain or burial mounds] wailing. When her voice was heard it was thought to herald the death of a member of the family who would say 'O its only NicGillmh[ìcheil] bhoc[d].'
Story about the saints connected to Lios Mòr/Lismore, 2 September 1870
Story about the theft of a corpse, 20 January 1871
Story and notes about burials and archaeological finds on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 8 July 1870
Story entitled 'Caisteal Bhuiri', 1871
Story entitled 'Caisteal Bhuiri' [Caisteal Bhuirgh/Borve Castle, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula] collected from an unnamed informant telling how. Written transversely over the first few lines of this item also in pencil is 'Donl mac Iain Mhuid[eartach] who lived at Borve last was the last buried in the tunga at Howmore [Tobha Mòr, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. Raol Mor & Raol Og buried at Cladh Mhoire Nunton in the caibieal'.
Story entitled 'Faire Chlaidh' and accompanying notes about graveyards, 26 May 1869
Story entitled 'Faire Chlaidh' probably collected from Penelope MacLellan, Ormacleit/Ormaclete, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist and accompanying notes about graveyards.
Two stories about candlesticks, September 1870
Two stories about candlesticks, the first telling how one was found on the Crois [Crois Dubh Lios Mòr or Black Cross of Lismore, Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire], giving a description of it and the other tells how a gold candlestick was found in the grave of a daughter of Ni[ghean] Mac Coll Rugarbh, Benderloch [Rhugarbh, Meudarloch] about forty years before [c 1830].