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Islay Argyllshire Scotland

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 112 Collections and/or Records:

Note about [hawks], June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/94
Scope and Contents

Note about [hawks] probably collected on Ìle/Islay which reads 'Glasag like cruban. Geamhsag beagan giobach air na meuran'.

Dates: June 1887

Note about herring and hake, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/46
Scope and Contents

Note collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Baile Meadhanach/Ballymeanach, Ìle/Islay, which reads 'Calmoir Herring haig - dif[ficult] to fish.' Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Note about horse or cow hair, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/43
Scope and Contents

Note about horse or cow hair collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/Islay, the meaning of which is unclear. Also, vocabulary note which reads 'Conachag = shell'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Note about otters on Ìle/Islay, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/34
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Note about otters on Ìle/Islay probably collected from Donald Currie, crofter there, which states that 'Beiste donna' is an expression for an otter and that [Donald] 'Killed an otter larger than a barn door. The[y] larger than any ever seen in Islay - (twice attacked).'

Dates: June 1887

Note about place-names on Ìle/Islay, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/55
Scope and Contents

Note about place-names on Ìle/Islay probably collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Baile Meadhanach/Ballymeanach, which reads 'Airdbheala, Port Bheala or speala. W[est] of P[or]tnahaven Isla Cala.'

Dates: June 1887

Note about pouches on fish, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/79
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Note about pouches on fish collected on Ìle/Islay that 'Crag-dhu has pouch on each side large...Sporan faolin in Murlach [dogfish].' Text has been scored through as if transcribed alsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Note about sealife, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/91
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Note about sealife probably collected on Ìle/Islay which reads 'Luga gheal like the one on shore. Larg[e] seal as big as any ox in Laudal [Labhdal/Laudale]. Ron [ròin or seals] fond of ceol.'

Dates: June 1887

Note about shellfish, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/47
Scope and Contents

Note about shellfish collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Baile Meadhanach/Ballymeanach, Ìle/Islay, stating that 'Donnag [cockles or fish] are among stones in [the] shore' and the sizes of 'Gearran cruacach' [probably lumpfish] and 'Gearran greis'.

Dates: June 1887

Note about stones at Cille Charain and accompanying sketch, 6 June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/60
Scope and Contents

Note about stones at Cille Charain [Cille Chiarain/Kilchiaran, Ìle/Islay] and accompanying sketch that the stones were '5 x 3 1/2' [feet] and that there were 'Sev[e]r[al] in chapel one gable up all rest down'.

Dates: 6 June 1887

Note about sun fish, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/85
Scope and Contents

Note about sun fish collected in Ìle/Islay that in 'Cuan Barra' fish 'flap mov[in]g on surface of sea' and are '11 or 13 f[ee]t long like a shell tough as hide'. Also mentions 'Nathar-tragh' [nathair-traghad or sand-eel] which has a pencil-like point and the flapping of the 'Gear[r]a cnuacach'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887