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Argyllshire Scotland

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 498 Collections and/or Records:

Note about Uilleam Swain who wrote ogham, October 1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/50
Scope and Contents

Note about Uilleam Swain [William Swain], Taigh Beallach Ruai, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, who wrote ogham which his wife was able to understand.

Dates: October 1892
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note about waulking songs, 7 August 1886

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/18
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Note collected from Duncan Cameron, police officer, Lochaline [Loch Àlainn, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] about waulking songs describing how six women work at fulling the cloth, one woman sings and the rest sing the chorus. 'No song must be sang (sic) twice or else it [takes] back the cloth.' There are also fragments of lines from waulking songs.

Dates: 7 August 1886
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about wells and a rock connected with St Cyril, 1884

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/256
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Note about wells and a rock connected with St Cyril [Curalan], listing the wells as Tobar nan Sùl, Tobar na Glùn, Tobar Churalainn and Tobar nan Cìoch and the rock as Clach an Droma [Tobar an Sùl, Tobar a' Ghlùin, Tobar Churalain, all Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. People would leave a halfpenny or a shell at Tobar Churalainn.

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

Note about where St Cyril lived, 1884

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/257
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Note about where Saint Cyril [Curalan] lived, which is reputed to have been at Leitir Ru-altain [Letterwalton, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. Also notes that Ciorstan Mòr Na Creaige [Creag] had a habit of saying 'Och C[huralainn] tonn aigh[earrach] ort'.

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

Note about yew and hazel, 29 August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/72
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Note about yew and hazel, stating that Glen Iur [Gleann Iubhair/Glen Ure, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] is full of yew, and that a hazel was taken from the garden to Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann] for the archers [Royal Company of Archers]. The word 'piollachadh' is given for 'lopping of trees'.

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

Note and story about forts in the Treshnish Isles, August 1886

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/37
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Note and story which reads 'Sloc Bran in Cairnaborg mor [Slochd Bran, Cairn na Burgh Mòr] Forts in both. Dùn Chruit in Lunga - a man fell down in search of gull eggs.'

Dates: August 1886
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note describing the 'Gearran cruacach', June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/67
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Note probably collected on Ìle/Islay, describing the 'Gearran cruacach' as 'narrow tail large wide mouth some as large as trosg' [cod].

Dates: June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note differentiating between Appin in Argyllshire and Appin in Perthshire and accompanying rhyme, August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/48
Scope and Contents Note probably collected from Christina Campbell née Macintyre, Lios Mòr/Lismore Earra, Ghàidheal/Argyllshire differentiating between Appin in Argyllshire [An Apainn, Earra Ghàidheal] and Appin in Perthshire [Apainn nam Mèinnearach/Appin of Dull, Siorrachd Peairt]. The accompanying rhyme, a sheiling rhyme, includes other places in those counties such as Coire bhacai and Coire bhuiri [Coire Bhachdaidh and Coire Bhùirich]. Also a vocabulary note that 'ruithe' [ruighe] means the same as...
Dates: August 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note entitled 'Clach Dhiarmaid', 1884

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/260
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Note entitled 'Clach Dhiarmaid' describing the stone and its situation at the north end of Loch Nell [Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] close to River Lonan and a stone circle of granite boulders. States that the 'plain of Stron t Soilleir' [Strontoiller] is beautiful.

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

Note listing places near Loch Nell, 1884

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/240
Scope and Contents

Note listing places near Loch Nell, which reads 'Dun Neil in Sron toilleir Cladh na h-Inid, Torr an tuirc Lochneill house a black house thatched on E[ast] S[ide]' [Loch nan Eala, Dùn-neil, Strontoiller, Cladh na h-Annaid, Torinturk and Lochnell House, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. The places are probably of archaeological interest.

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