Argyllshire Scotland
Found in 498 Collections and/or Records:
Note about the fish 'blad-fo-lic', June 1887
Note collected on Ìle/Islay about the fish 'blad-fo-lic' that it is shaped like a leabag [flounder] and that it had a 'spot on each side when the saviour caught it.' Text has been scored through as if transcribed alsewhere.
Note about the fish 'Creagag' [rockfish], June 1887
Note about the fish 'Creagag' [rockfish] probably collected on Ìle/Islay, noting that in Barra [Barraigh/Isle of Barra] they are plaited with 'sugan connlaich' [straw rope].
Note about the fish giberneach [cuttle fish], June 1887
Note about the fish giberneach [gibearnach or cuttle fish] collected on Ìle/Islay , that there are two types 'giberneach bocach' and 'gib[earnach] sgrathach' and that they 'Take the ite fly'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Note about the fish 'gobag' [dogfish] giving birth, June 1887
Note about the fish 'gobag' [dogfish] giving birth collected on Ìle/Islay that it 'brings forth like a cat kitten in the boat.' Text has been scored through as if transcribed alsewhere.
Note about the fish 'Leabag' [flounder] and vocabulary, June 1887
Note about the fish 'Leabag' [flounder] probably collected on Ìle/Islay, including that there are three kinds of flounder and describing each of them. Vocabulary note reads 'Blad-fo-lic = Sole-fish'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Note about the fish 'siolag' [sand-eel], June 1887
Note about the fish 'siolag' [sand-eel] probably collected on Ìle/Islay that it has a long mouth of about eight or nine inches in circumference.
Note about the fish 'ugsa' [coalfish], June 1887
Note about the fish 'ugsa' [coalfish] probably collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/Islay, which reads 'A man at P[ort] na haven could see an ugsa breaki[n]g a mile. He saw the gull could see the ugsa break[in]g 3 miles off'. [Port na h-Abhainne/Portnahaven] Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Note about the house of Lochnell, 14 August 1883
Note that the house at Lochnell [Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] has been burnt but that the stairs did not burn until the last time (1853).
Note about the hunting habits of hawks, June 1887
Note about the hunting habits of hawks probably collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/Islay. It mentions the spear[a]g, an t-seabh[ag]-rua and an t-seabhag ghorm [sparrowhawk, red hawk or falcon and peregrine falcon] and the sizes of birds they will or will not attempt to kill. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Note about the island Eilean Mhunde, August 1883
Note about the island Eilean Mhunde [Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] that it is connected to Saint Munn and that half of it belongs to Callart and half to Bailchaolais [Ballachulish]. Carmichael notes that 'They used to hear prayers on Sgeir a Phobiull at night ...& music of a beaut[iful] kind as of sweet voic[e]d saints'. There is a ruined fort on the top of the island.