Tag Archives: animals

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2022.35.2

Digitised copy of a stone rubbing, undated. Shows a galley with a furled sail and below that two pairs of opposed beasts, surrounded by an overall pattern of plant scroll ornament and an interlaced design. Above the rubbing is a partial rubbing, showing a long oblong mark and an interlaced design. The grave is located in Kirkapol, in the little graveyard (An Cladh Beag). A record for this grave is available on the Tiree Graves website, which describes the design as being from the Iona School, 14th-16th century. The rubbing comes from Lord Archibald Campbell’s collection of monument rubbings.

From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.

2014.115.24

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 456, 11/12/2009

Local news: report on boat-building and restoration course; report on Christmas craft fayre; Tiree Community Business chairman’s report; S5 pupils say thank you for support of mountain climb; TRD’s cinema wins funding award; hoax telephone calls; managment of campervans; in influx of house mice; letter to the editor from Derrick Wolstencroft in Spain; New York marathon update by Matt Boyd; announcing Tiree Association scholarship awards; announcing Christmas lights competition; report on the Think Pink fundraising event at the Lodge Hotel.

2019.35.1

Hardback book`The Land of the Hills and the Glens` by Seton Gordon, 1920. Illustrated portrayal of the Hebrides and the west coast of Scotland (Tiree pages 158-167). On the inside front cover is written “For Peter Anderson. With best wishes from the Author. March 1921”. Peter Anderson was the first gamekeeper on Tiree, appointed in 1886.

2018.109.1

Poster illustrating the whales, dolphins porpoises and sharks inhabiting the seas in the west of Scotland, with their names in English, Latin and Gaelic. Produced by the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust, 2018.

Minke whale / Muc-mhara-mhioncaidh

Humpback whale / Muc-mhara-crotach

Killer whale (Orca) / Madadh-cuain

Basking shark / Cearban

White-beaked dolphin / Leumadair bàn-ghobach

Risso’s dophin / Cana

Bottlenose dolphin / Muc-bhiorach

harbour porpoise / Peileag

Common dolphin / Leumadair cumanta

Atlantic white-sided dolphin / Leumadair cliathaich-bhàin

 

2017.82.1

Small clear glass bottle embossed with ELLIMAN’S EMBROCATION. The embrocation (lotion) was first formulated by James Elliman of Slough in 1847 as a muscle rub for animals. It was later sold for use on people, and become famous as an aid for aching muscles and joints. Found around Donald Brown’s house at Vaul.

2017.73.1

Three purple shells of the Violet Sea-snail Janthina janthina in a glass jar. Found on the beach at The Green, these shells were part of an exceptional influx of at least 50 specimens to reach Tiree in August 2017. The Violet Sea-snail is a warm-water species, and none had been previously recorded on the island.

2017.66.3

Tiree Annual / Bliadhnail Thiriodh 2014. Annual magazine of history and nature articles, the year’s births, marriages & deaths, summary of achievements of Tiree Community Development Trust. Compiled by Simon Wellock on behalf of Tiree Community Business.

2016.67.4

Hardback book ‘Transactions of The Gaelic Society of Inverness, Volume XVII, 1890-91’, 1892. See ‘Sgoil nan eun, no, mac an fhucadair’ tale by John Gregorson Campbell. (Page 58) Donation label ‘Tiree High School: This book was donated by Gordon D. Donald’.

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