Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland
Found in 120 Collections and/or Records:
Story about how John Campbell got his lands in Harris, c1872
Story about Mor mhor and Ailein mac ic Ailein, 20 January 1871
Story about Mr Aulaidh and the fugitive [Bonnie Prince Charlie] and family history notes, November 1873
Story about Mr Aulay and accompanying family history notes, 11 July 1870
Story about Mr Finlay [MacRae] from Vallay, 14 July 1870
Story about Olaghaire and the MacLeods in Skye, 13 September 1873
Story about Olaghaire [Olghar] and the MacLeods in Skye collected from Coinneach MacThasgail [Kenneth MacAskill], Caolas Scalpey [Caolas Scalpaigh/Kyles Scalpay, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris].
Story about pro- and anti-Jacobites in one MacLeod family and biographical details about John MacKinnon, March 1874
Story about seeing the remains of 'Bogha an Teampuill', November 1873
Story collected from Keith Macdonald, Scarista [Sgarasta, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris], that he saw 'most distinctly' the walls of Bogha an Teampuill, which are submerged opposite Scarista beag [Sgarasta Bheag] and that 'the tangles were growing to a great extent over it'. 'He saw it to his great astonishment' as his hooks had got entangled with the long seaweed and he noticed lime shells on the seaweed which came up with his hooks.
Story about the bird 'bunabhuachille' (great northern diver), 1877
Story about the the bird 'bunabhuachille' [buna-bhuachaille] (great northern diver) on Loch Uiseadan, Loch Leatha and Loch Bheinneasal [An Sgarp/Scarp, Na Hearadh/Harris] including a statement that Donald MacLean of Scarp who herded there while a boy and used to chase them 'among stones and water'.