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Hills

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Placename etymology for Carnan-an-t-seisir, 1867

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/35
Scope and Contents Placename etymology for Carnan-an-t-seisir [Càrnan, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay] collected from Ruary an Ruma MacNeil [Roderick MacNeil] aged 88, crofter there telling how about two or four hundred years before [c1660 or 1460] six men from Islay or Jura [Ìle or Diùra, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] landed on the island at Leac Shleite [Bàgh Slèiteadh] following a storm. The body of a drowned woman had been found and so when the locals saw the men on the top of the hill they rushed up and attacked...
Dates: 1867

Placename note for Bealach/Coire nan Uraisg, 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/191
Scope and Contents

Placename note which reads 'Bealach/Coire nan Uraisg in the Cuchull hills.' [Bealach Coire nan Uraisg and Coire nan Uraisg, An Cuiltheann/Cuilinn Hills, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]

Dates: 1894

Story about fairy hills, 1891

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/140
Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Sithichean Cnoc Na Connlaich' about a man who when passing between two hills in the middle of the night while carrying straw hears a voice calling him from one hill telling him to leave the fodder and a voice from the other hill telling him not to, 'A mhic Dhomhaill Ghlais cha'n fhag tu am fodar am fad agus a bhitheas uiread leat agus a tha na d'aghaidh agus fear/duine a bharrachd!' [Son of Gray Donald, don't leave the straw so long as there are as many for you as there are...
Dates: 1891

Under the Deodars, Simla, Jakko Hill [India], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/209
Scope and Contents

Photograph of Jakko Hill near the city of Simla [Shimla] in India, 'taken from Mashobra to east of Simla.' Also, there is a handwritten note on the slide, 'Under the Deodars' which is a reference to Rudyard Kipling's book of the same name.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

View in the Matopo Hills, [Zimbabwe], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3238
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Photograph of a view of an encampment in the Matopo Hills, [Zimbabwe] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Vocabulary note and accompanying story fragment about 'Righinn donn na sithich[e]an', 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/130
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note which reads 'Cnoc na droch comhairle, Caoineachas = Bean Nighe' and accompanying story fragment about 'Nighinn donn na sithich[e]an' that she was sad about the daughters of the kingdom. The text has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1894