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Argyllshire Scotland

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 498 Collections and/or Records:

Rhyme about bird calls, 4 June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/19
Scope and Contents

Rhyme about bird calls including the call of the smeòrach or thrush and the call of the lon-dubh or blackbird.

Dates: 4 June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Rhyme beginning 'Chunna mise an Dreolla', June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/53
Scope and Contents

Rhyme probably collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Baile Meadhanach/Ballymeanach, Ìle/Islay, beginning 'Chunna mise an Dreolla, Am bogach am bac moine' .

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

[Saying] and vocabulary note for 'Aibheis = ruin', c1892

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/125
Scope and Contents

[Saying] which reads 'Aibheis fhuar/uair? bha thu uair At arde high' and vocabulary note which reads 'Aibheis = ruin'.

Dates: c1892
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Saying beginning 'An Laidhail chruai chreagach', 1892

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/28
Scope and Contents

Saying which reads 'An Laidhail chruai chreagach, Baile is leibidich an Mucarn' [Muckairn, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. 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

Saying beginning 'Cha toir thu i mhac tuathanaich', September 1884

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/291
Scope and Contents

Saying beginning 'Cha toir thu i mhac tuathanaich' collected from Donald MacPhail, grocer, Quay, Oban [An t-Òban, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].

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

Saying beginning 'Feuch rist e!', June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/52
Scope and Contents

Saying collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Baile Meadhanach/Ballymeanach, Ìle/Islay, which reads 'Feuch rist e! Feuch rist e! Sguab as e! Sguab as e!'.

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

Saying beginning 'T fhalt 'us t fhiona D. daoine', 7 August 1886

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/16
Scope and Contents

Saying collected from Duncan Cameron, police officer, Lochaline [Loch Àlainn, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire], which reads 'T fhalt 'us t fhiona D. daoine, T ionga mhaol D sathurn.'

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

Saying which reads 'Is toigh leis gach uidh a shamhuil', 7 August 1886

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/23
Scope and Contents

Saying which reads 'Is toigh leis gach uidh a shamhuil' collected from Duncan Cameron, police officer, Lochaline [Loch Àlainn, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].

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

Short account of a trip to Ìle/Islay, 1 June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/59
Scope and Contents

Short account of a trip to Ìle/Islay by Alexander Carmichael, describing how he landed at Port Ellen and drove to Bridgend finally travelling with his sister-in-law, Helen Carmichael and staying in Claidville [Port Ilein, Beul an Àtha and Cladville].

Dates: 1 June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Sketch of gravestone, 10 June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/102
Scope and Contents

Sketch by Alexander Carmichael of a gravestone drawn at Cladh Chillandrais, Tarbert, below which is written 'Stone grave stone at door of Skipnes[s] tomb.' [Cladh Cille Anndrais, An Tairbeirt/Tarbert and Sgibinis/Skipness all Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].

Dates: 10 June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael