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Houses

 Subject
Subject Source: Sss
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 69 Collections and/or Records:

Reinforeced Concrete Cottage, Rowntree, York, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3220
Scope and Contents

Architectural plan of a reinforced concrete cottage that cost £90 by Rowntree in York, [England] in the early 20th century. Each room is identified and dimensions of the space given.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Residence of J Deane Willis of Bapton Manor, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1235
Scope and Contents

Photograph of J Deane Willis, Shorthorn cattle breeder's house Bapton Manor in Stockton, Wiltshire, England in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Sittyton House - Home of Amos Cruickshank, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1241
Scope and Contents

Photograph of Amos Cruickshank, Scottish Shorthorn cattle breeder's residence, Sittyton House in Scotland in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Stories about Ranald MacDonald of Milton, 12 April 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/78
Scope and Contents Stories collected from Mrs MacLellan, Ormacleit/Ormaclete, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist, about Captain Ranald MacDonald, father of Flora MacDonald, telling how he built the first house at Nunton [Baile nan Cailleach, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula] 'after the Tota mhòr was burnt in 1715 - the night of Sheriffmuir. Allan was the Clanranald who was killed there', noting that he was killed by a man he had sent out of the country who shot him with a sixpence. Allan MacDonald of Clanranald is also...
Dates: 12 April 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Story about a man on Lewis who is going to build a house and is visited by a fairy, 1873

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW105/32
Scope and Contents

Story about a man on Lewis [Eilean Leòdhais] who is going to build a house and is visited by a fairy.

Dates: 1873
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story about a sick woman in an unthatched house, 1867

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/33
Scope and Contents Story about a sick woman in an unthatched house on Miùghlaigh/Mingulay in which Carmichael was encouraged by 'My old friend Ruary' [Roderick MacNeil] to visit the sick woman even although Carmichael did not know her as Roderick thought she would appreciated it. On arriving at the house he was surprised that the woman was young and 'comely' but saw that she was completely paralysed with rheumatism. He also noticed that there was only a tiny amount of roof over the bed where she lay as 'The...
Dates: 1867
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Story about Alastair mac Colla and the 'laogh alla', 1884

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/254
Scope and Contents

Story about Alastair mac Colla [Alexander MacDonald] and the 'laogh alla' [wild calf] that when he came to 'Taigh an Tuirn' [possibly Taigh an Trithinn], he tried to put it on fire but he was unable to do so because the laogh alla [wild calf] was there. The laogh alla 'brought a charm to the place he visited'. Notes that 'alla' means wanderer roaming going wild and uncontrolled.

Dates: 1884
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story about Sir Walter Scott, 29 August 1883

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/86
Scope and Contents

Story about Sir Walter Scott that he stood at Cregan [Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] facing Shian and said he would build a house there, with the wood on one hand, Shian on the other and facing the sea.

Dates: 29 August 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story about the MacLeods at Eòropaidh, 27 October 1873

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW115/10
Scope and Contents

Story about the MacLeods at Eòropaidh/Eoropie, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis, which states that the iron rampart was taken down from their house by Torcal Conanach [Torcail MacLeod] who lived at [Ullapool [Ullapul/Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty]], and that Torcal Oighre [Torcail MacLeod half-brother to the previous Torcail] lived with his father.

Dates: 27 October 1873
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story entitled 'An t-Each Ursunn' and accompanying song, 24 March 1869

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW107/33
Scope and Contents Story entitled 'An t-Each Ursunn' about a Maor Mòr who came over from Trotarnish [Trotternish, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye] to Baileshear [Baile Sear/Baleshare, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] to fetch the best horse [each ursunn] and horse-hair halter from a poor widow. When he stopped at Tobar Pheadair in Sollas [Solas] for water Seumas Òg, the son of Sir Seumas Rua [Sir Seumas Ruadh], went to chase him away and threatened to chop his head into the well except that the Maor Mòr's...
Dates: 24 March 1869
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

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