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Argyllshire Scotland

 Subject

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 498 Collections and/or Records:

Note on quantities of barley at Tirefour, August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/58
Scope and Contents

Note probably collected from Christina Campbell née Macintyre, Lios Mòr/Lismore Earra, Ghàidheal/Argyllshire that eight bolls of barley were harvested from forty stooks at Tirphuir [Tirefour, Lios Mòr/Lismore].

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

Note on stone inscription, 15 August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/11
Scope and Contents

Note collected from Donald MacGregor, Baile Garbh/Bailegarve, Lios Mòr/Lismore that there was 'a stone dated 1340 in raised figures' [on top of the] church.

Dates: 15 August 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note on stones and graveyard on Inch Kenneth, 17 August 1886

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/51
Scope and Contents

Note on stones and graveyard on Inch Kenneth, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire noting the gravestones as being of 'native stone', one marked as 'H M 1676', and telling how the graveyard had been 'more extensive' as a farmer had ploughed up 'cut skulls', noting the present farmer to be Lach[lan] Campbell.

Dates: 17 August 1886
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note on stones at Brènphort, August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/14
Scope and Contents

Note on stones at Brènphort [Brenphort, Lios Mòre/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] including the measurements of one of these and that it is the biggest conglomerate stone on the island.

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

Note on the Bishop of Argyll's residence on Bernera, August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/16
Scope and Contents

Note that the Bishop of Argyll lived on Bernera Island [Lios Mòre/Lismore] in a 'small house near the Temple'. It is noted as being in a dell which is a burial ground.

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

Note on the dimensions of Crois Du[bh], September 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/79
Scope and Contents

Note that the dimensions of Crois Du[bh] are 29 x 16 x 2 [Crois Dubh Lios Mòr or Black Cross of Lismore, 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 on the placenames Eiseg and Cladh na Faoilinn, August 1886

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/36
Scope and Contents

Note which reads 'Eiseg a farm on slope of hill - Cladh na Faoilinn. Faoileann a low terrace near the sea.' [probably around Am Muile/Ilsle of Mul, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]

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

Note on the places 'Aber-tibirt' and 'Tobar-thubirt', 1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/17
Scope and Contents

Note on the places 'Aber-tibirt' and 'Tobar-thubirt' which reads 'Aber-tibirt at the head of Loch tiacais. Morver[n] Tobar-thibirt = Smercleit'. [Ardantiobairt, Loch Teacuis, A' Mhorbhairne/Morvern, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire and Smeircleit, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

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

Note on the sighting of a kingfisher, 1884

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/250
Scope and Contents

Note on the sighting of a kingfisher at Cladh na Mac Rìgh [Glenamachrie/Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]: 'The first I have ever seen'.

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

Note on the work 'spagada-glig', September 1884

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/286
Scope and Contents

Note on the word 'spagada-glig' [spagda-gliog] collected from Donald MacPhail, grocer, Quay, Oban [An t-Òban, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] that it was 'App[lied] to Macleans as spagada-glig Chlann an Leathain'.

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