Eels
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Etymological and geographical note for Creaga Loisgte, 20 January 1871
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887
Note about the heron, June 1887
Note about the heron which reads 'Live eels go thro the Heron + she turns round + eats it again!'
Note on a gull feeding in flight, June 1887
Note on a gull feeding on 'easgan chaol dhubh' [eel] in flight noting how the eel escaped three times only to be caught before it reached the ground again.
Note which reads 'Studied the easgan + the torranan from fly depost eggs', June 1887
Note collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/Islay, which reads 'Studied the easgan + the torranan from fly depost eggs'.
Notes about eels, 23 March 1877
Notes probably collected from Anthony Campbell, Kentangval [Ceann Tangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Barra] on eels, how they move and a story about a large eel once caught at Airdabhorain [Àird Mhurain, Barraigh/Barra].
Notes about otters, 23 March 1877
Notes probably collected from Anthony Campbell, Kentangval [Ceann Tangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Barra] on otters, young otters and how they eat eels.
Notes on Dun Buie and Dun 'ic Mhathain and accompanying story, 26 March 1872
Story about a girl being bitten by an eel, June 1887
Story, probably collected from 'Nor[man] the Bank', Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist, about a girl [Ish[bel] Diarmaid, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye] being 'cut to the bone' by an eel bite.
Story about an eel, June 1887
Story about an eel which caught a man's leg at Leacali [Leac a LÌ/Lackalee, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] but [it was later caught and a piece was taken out of it]. Each line of text has been scored through horizontally.