Isle of Mull Argyllshire Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:
Story about 'Donl a Ghleidhidh' the seer, August 1886
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/41
Scope and Contents
Story about 'Do[mh]n[al]l a Ghleidhidh' the seer, telling how he did not take off his 'cota mor' [còta mòr or greatcoat] for seven years and the day he did he made a prediction which came true. The nature of the prediction is unclear owing to the illegibility of the handwriting.
Dates:
August 1886
Story about stoats, 7 August 1886
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/8
Scope and Contents
Story probably collected from Duncan Cameron, police officer, Tobar Mhoire/Tobermory, Muile/Isle of Mull, telling how John MacLean, a joiner from Tobermory and Sorn [Tobar Mhoire, Sorne, Am Muile/Isle of Mull] saw a stoat above him in his barn. He got a 'teth-thiallach (spit) and progged' it and that night his best calf was dead.
Dates:
7 August 1886
Story about the Baron of Bachuil, the Macleans of Duart and and the body of Campbell of Airds/Stewart of Appin, September 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/39
Scope and Contents
Story about the recovery of the body of Campbell of Airds by the Baron of Bachuil. In the text Carmichael has queried Campbell of Airds as properly being Stewart of Appin. The story tells how Campbell or Stewart was hanged by the Macleans of Duart over the wall of Duart Castle [Caisteal Dhubhairt, Muile/Isle of Mull, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. The Baron of Bachuil went to retrieve the body with his two daughters, putting holes in all of Macleans' boats so that they could not pursue them....
Dates:
September 1870
Story about the King of Spain's daughter and MacLean of Duart, 1867
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/68
Scope and Contents
Story probably collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay about the daughter of the King of Spain and MacLean of Duart. In the story the King of Spain's daughter has a dream about MacLean of Duart and so decides to go and find him. On arriving in Duart, Am Muile/Isle of Mull she meets him and asks him to go to Spain with her. To get rid of her he blows up the boat and then decides to get rid of his wife as well. He strands his wife on 'sgeir McLean' at Sliosmore...
Dates:
1867
Story about the Macleans of Duart and the heir of Dunstaffnage, September 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/31
Scope and Contents
Story telling how the Macleans of Duart stole the heir of Dunstaffnage and chained him up on Aoine Mor na h-aird [Aoine Mòr na h-Àird [possibly Aonadh Mòr], Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. The heir was rescued by a MacGilleDhui[bh] [Black] of Lismore and taken away by the Lismore people. The Macleans caught up with them at Killchearan [Kilcheran, Lios Mòr/Lismore], whereupon there was a fight and all the Macleans were killed. They were buried on Eilean na braich, which is the island nearest to...
Dates:
September 1870
Story about the murder of an Appin man by Macleans of Duart, 5 October 1892
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/45
Scope and Contents
Story about the murder of an Appin man by Macleans of Duart collected at Bachuill, Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire. The story tells how the Appin men beat the Macleans of Duart at a games in Muile/Mull after which they fought each other and one of the Appin men was killed and the Macleans 'hung up the body against the castle and defied the world to touch it.' The Baron of Bachuil heard what happened and went to Duart Castle with his two red-haired daughters and 'rend[ered] all...
Dates:
5 October 1892
Story and notes about peats, 7 August 1886
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/2
Scope and Contents
Story and notes collected from Duncan Cameron, police officer, Tobar Mhoire/Tobermory, Muile/Isle of Mull, telling how he saw a 'lump of peat as large as houses' on the shore at Sgairinish Tiree [Sgairinis/Scarinish, Tiriodh] and that it was full of 'thick bark 1½ thick nuts seed like lintseed = bog myrtle seed the Knots of the wood above remaining.' Cameron states that Dugald MacDugald dug his peats there for several years and describes having found moss with seeds under the sand. He also...
Dates:
7 August 1886
Story entitled 'Baran Na Bachuil Agus na 2 [Dà] Ighnean Rua', August 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/41
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Baran Na Bachuil Agus na 2 [Dà] Ighnean Rua', probably collected from Christina Campbell née Macintyre, Lios Mòr/Lismore Earra, Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, about the murder of [Duncan] Stewart of Appin and his valet [Sollamh MacColla/Sorley MacColl] following a competition at Duart [Dubhaird, Muile/Mull], and the retrieval of Stewart's body by the Baron of Bachuil and his two red-haired daughters. The other states that when Stewart realised that his valet had been murdered he...
Dates:
August 1883
Story entitled 'Nes' [neas or stoat], 7 August 1886
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/6
Scope and Contents
Story collected from Duncan Cameron, police officer, Tobar Mhoire/Tobermory, Muile/Isle of Mull, entitled 'Nes' [neas or stoat] telling how at Airi-miseig [Àridh Miseig], he took a spade to a stoat's den [còs] but found nothing. He had gone about a mile further on when he heard the stoat hissing at his heel and it followed him despite him throwing stones at it. He reached Bailiocar and was telling his story when the stoat was found at the door still hissing. He and Eon Carmichael went to...
Dates:
7 August 1886
The Carmichael-Watson Collection
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-97
Scope and Contents
The Carmichael-Watson Collection consists of papers belonging to the Reverend Alexander Cameron of Arran, Alexander Carmichael, civil servant and folklorist, Alexander MacBain of Inverness, and Professor William John Watson and his son James Carmichael Watson, along with books and papers belonging to the Reverend Charles Robertson of Jura, the Reverend Angus MacDonald, the Reverend Archibald MacDonald and the Reverend Father Allan McDonald of Eriskay. These include: invocations...
Dates:
18th century - mid 20th century