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Argyllshire Scotland

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 498 Collections and/or Records:

Note about land ownership at Creagan, August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/128
Scope and Contents

Note about land ownership at Creagan [Earra Ghàidheal], that it belonged to [Sir [Duncan] Campbell of Barcaldine] then to Colonel Fleming and that the Duke got one hundred pounds when Fleming died and would get thirty shillings at any death.

Dates: August 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about Lighe sgeir and quarrying rock, September 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/84
Scope and Contents

Note about Lighe sgeir that it is 'on a line between Musdail and Bearnaray' [Liath Sgeir, Eilean Musdile and Bernera Island, all Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire], it was where rock was quarried for gravestones in Iona [Ì Chaluim Chille], that the quarrying marks are still visible and that the rock itself is visible at half tide opposite Cailleach [Campber].

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

Note about Lon na straioc, September 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/50
Scope and Contents

Note about Lon na straioc which reads 'There are peop[le] living who saw the run [ruin?] of Lon na straioc down to Tai phuill instead of now down Alltaogain.' [Lòn na Straioc, Taigh Phuill, Allt Aogain, all Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]

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

Note about 'Mart', September 1884

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/287
Scope and Contents

Note about 'Mart' collected from Donald MacPhail, grocer, Quay, Oban [An t-Òban, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] which reads 'Mart, March or April? The last fortnight in the first and the first in the last'.

Dates: September 1884
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about men who fought at Culloden, August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/132
Scope and Contents

Note about men who fought at Culloden hiding in Dòmhnall nan Òrd's cave and that 20 of them who died were from Glencreran [Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire], and were very young: 'on whom fias[a]g [beard] did not mark'. The Glencreran men were commanded by Stewart of Airdsheile, who is noted as being 'a fine sword man'.

Dates: August 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about Mount's Bay, Cornwall, November 1873

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/5
Scope and Contents

Note about Mount's Bay, Cornwall that it has 'sunk much' and that Carmichael 'saw this when visiting St Michael's Mount'. He adds a reminder to 'See Johnson's remarks about Coll' [Cola, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]

Dates: November 1873
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note about Muckairn people and marriage customs, 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/161
Scope and Contents

Note about the people of Muckairn [Mucàrna, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] probably collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, that shots would be fired at weddings there and that the sharp-tongued people of the parish were known as the 'gearra-ghobaich'.

Dates: 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about 'Na Leonaich' and 'Na Ruitich', 29 August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/73
Scope and Contents

Note probably collected from Donald MacColl [foxhunter, Glencreran, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] that the tribes 'Na Leonaich' and 'Na Ruitich' fought at Cladh Chuiralain [Cladh Churalain, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] and the people of the glens joined one side but were killed. Notes that Tobar nan Cìioch is used for a sore heart.

Dates: 29 August 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about otters on Ìle/Islay, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/34
Scope and Contents

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

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

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