Manual work
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
Vocabulary note about 'Ullag', c1893
Vocabulary note about 'Ullag' that it is 'A stone put in red hot to dry corn'. The note includes the phrase 'Ha! ha! tiondaigh claich fo d shiol!' and also that 'Biorsamaid = steel yard'.
Vocabulary note for Bíta or bíteal [churn], 10 July 1870
Vocabulary note for Bíta or bíteal [churn] collected on Tarasaigh/Taransay describing the leather 'imideal' tied around the mouth of the churn and the manner in which it would be used to churn butter.
Vocabulary notes and saying connected to wool, basket-making and weavework, June 1887
Vocabulary notes and saying connected to wool, basket-making and weavework probably from Hiorta/St Kilda including 'Balgan-aurais = Auras the bag in which oiled wool is put when ri calanas'; 'Adhrac-bhuaic = Horn in which grease is kept for household purposes', different words for 'Pill' including 'Sgiathag' and the saying 'Chan e aurais tha air mo chuig[e]il'.
Work song entitled 'Beil a Chailleach Bhra', 7 April 1869 to 30 September 1875
Work song entitled 'Beil a Chailleach Bhra' [or Òran na Bràth], beginning 'Beil a chaoil[leach] a bhrath'. The text has been scored through and a note reads 'Transcribed into Book No III page 53 30 Sept[ember] 1875 A[lexander] A[rchibald] C[armichael]'.