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Laundresses

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW,Use For = Washerwomen

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

Vocabulary notes for 'bean-nighidh' [washerwoman] and 'Freath' [edge], c1894

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/58
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary notes for 'bean-nighidh' [washerwoman] and 'Freath' [edge].

Dates: c1894
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael