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Mills

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Ukat
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Power of Water from a Waterfall for Irrigation, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/294
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a water mill being powered by water from a waterfall for irrigation in the late 19th or early 20th century.

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

Sketch plan and archaeological notes on Druim na h-Uamh Valacui, April 1871

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW119/22
Scope and Contents Sketch plan and archaeological notes on Druim na h-Uamh Valacui [Druim na h-Uamha, Bhàlaig/Vallaquie, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist], describing the remains of animals, pottery and half a quern found there. The quern is described as 'Granite much decayed & crumbling showing how long ago it [must] have made meal for its original owner.' The roof is overlapping and stones have broken as a result of the weight of sand above it, some three feet in depth. The sketch plan shows the dimensions of...
Dates: April 1871
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

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

Story about Alasdair MacColla, September 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/59
Scope and Contents

Story about Alasdair MacColla that as long as he [avoided] 'Eaglais Lismore & Muil[eann] [Ghocaingo] or Muil[eann] Charnasary' he would prosper [St Moluag's Catherdral, Lios Mòr/Lismore, and Càrn-asaraidh/Carnassarie both Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. He burnt the two buildings and he came to grief. The church on Lismore remained without a roof for a hundred years.

Dates: September 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Story entitled 'Mac Righ Eirinn', 28 October 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/124
Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Mac Righ Eirinn' [Mac Rìgh Èirinn or the Son of the King of Ireland] collected from Lach[lan] Donullach [Lachlan MacDonald], Gramasdale [Gramasdal/Gramsdale, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula]. In the story Rìgh Èirinn has remarried and his new wife is evil, so Mac Rìgh Èirinn runs away to his maternal grandfather's and tells him all about it. His grandfather gives him a filly and tells him that if he whispers 'Crath crath a lothag' to a filly, it will provide gold and if he says it...
Dates: 28 October 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael