Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland

Note on the origins of the placename Tiree [Tiriodh], 1886

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/314

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Note on the origins of the placename Tiree [Tiriodh] and of some other places such as Skye [An t-Eilean Sgitheanach] and placename elements possibly taken from the book Irish Lives of Saints.

Dates: 1886

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

Note which reads 'It was MacLeod of Talamsgeir who shot Sir James in the bonn dugh', October 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/131

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Note which reads 'It was MacLeod of Talamsgeir who shot Sir James in the bonn dugh [heel]' [Talaisgeir/Talisker, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]

Dates: October 1870

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

Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 12 September 1890 to 1895

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1

Scope and Contents Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael but also used by John Ewen MacRury. The front cover bears a sticker which reads 'Gaelic Notes 1894-5. (Collection of traditions, tales, etc. by Alexander Carmichael (?). Many pages cancelled, indicating publication.) [Carmichael Watson Collection]'. The flyleaf reads 'Gaelic Notes, 1894-5' and the rear flyleaf contains a jotting which reads 'Wishing Guidhe'. The beginning of the notebook contains field notes made by Carmichael in Uibhist a...

Dates: 12 September 1890 to 1895

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1856-1880

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW109

Scope and Contents Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael made up of three excise notebooks marked 'Journal', 'Account Current' and 'Bills Receivable'/'Bills Payable' and a single folio. The first book is marked on the front with 'Carbost June 13 1861 Alexander Carmichael' [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye].The second book is inscribed with the same text on the front cover and the inside front covers reads 'Alasdair A Mac 'Illemhicheil Cillendraisd, Liosmor' [Cill Anndrais/Killandrist, Lios...

Dates: 1856-1880

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Notebooks on the geology of Arran and Skye, 1851-1853

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Identifier: Coll-74/2

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The Notebooks on the geology of Arran and Skye series consists of:

Diary of time spent on Arran (1851)
Account of the 'Liasic district of Skye' (1853)

Dates: 1851-1853

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie

'Oigh an Fhuilt Oir' [The maid of the golden hair], c 1861-1866

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW423

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Tale begins 'Bha sid uair gille agus dh'falbh e dh'iarraidh cosnaigh agus rainig e Sasunn.' Recorded from Alasdair Donnullach [Alexander MacDonald] at 'Gleannose', Isle of Skye on 5 November 1861. Includes additional comments by Carmichael from 1865 and 1866.

Dates: c 1861-1866

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Part of a story entitled 'Fionladh Choinnachain', c1861

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/4

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Part of a story entitled 'Fionladh Choinnachain' which starts on folio 9v collected from Donull Mac Cuieag [Donald MacCaig], Fearan an lea, who learnt it more that twenty years before from Donull Mac a Phee [Donald MacPhee], Talamsgeir [Fearann an Leagha/Fernilea and Talaisgeir/Talisker, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. The fragment tells how a woman finds her foster-sons and a nobleman leaves all his possessions to his daughter and Fionladh mac na ban-traich.

Dates: c1861

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

Placename note about 'An Cuillioinn', 7 August 1886

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/25

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Place-name note collected from Duncan Cameron, police officer, Lochaline [Loch Àlainn, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] which reads 'An Cuillionn Rumach the Cuillionn of Rum. An Cuillionn Sgitheanach = the Cuillion of Skye' [An Cuiltheann Rùmach, Ruma/Rum and An Cuiltheann/Cuillin Hills, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. Amendments have been made in ink to the spelling of 'Cuillionn'.

Dates: 7 August 1886