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Floods

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Country Under Water, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/705
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a cow walking through a flooded field in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Irrigation - Flooded Area, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/316
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a flooded irrigation field area in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Land Under Water, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1074
Scope and Contents

Photograph of land under water in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Song beginning 'Chi mi Caibeal Dhiar[maid]', 27 March 1872

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/37
Scope and Contents

Song beginning 'Chi mi Caibeal Dhiar[maid], Na chreag iasg' [Donnchadh Mac Cuilcein/Duncan Mac Cuilcein] collected from Barbara MacPhi [Barbara MacPhie] aged 73, Dreumsdale [Dreumasdal/Drimsdale, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. The song is composed of twenty lines and is interrupted with a note on where 'Teisteamul nan gauna' [Teistamul nan Gamhna] is. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 27 March 1872

Song entitled 'Donnacha MacCuilcein' and accompanying note, 30 October 1872 and 5 October 1875

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/116
Scope and Contents Song entitled 'Donnacha MacCuilcein' probably collected from Angus Currie, Àird na Monadh, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist beginning 'Se Don MacC[uilcein], Thug tuil eir gach sad'. The song is composed of twenty-four lines. The accompanying note states that the song was composed by 'Nin Donil ioc Cathain (Nic Mhuirich)' about Donnacha MacCuilcein [Duncan MacQuilken], who built the first mill in Uibhist/Uist, damming the water at Tobha Mòr/Howmore whereupon 'a great flood came & covered all the...
Dates: 30 October 1872 and 5 October 1875