Photocopy of document `Descriptions of Tiree` by various authors, covering a period of 400 years.
Short extracts from 20 books describing various aspects of Tiree.
1997.29.1
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Dates: 1800s
1997.27.2
Information and maps of the Hough area, 1768-1805
(1) Extract from `Inhabitants of the Argyll Estate, 1779`, ed. Eric Cregeen, 1963, p139 : Index of Places. (2) Partial map 1768-9 showing Hough area extracted from `Argyll Estate Instructions, 1771-1805` ed. Eric Cregeen, 1964. (3) Hough area from O/S map NL 94 NW.
2001.195.1
Book `MacLean Manuscripts in Nova Scotia` by Colm O Baoill
A catalogue of the Gaelic verse collections MG15G/2/1 and MG15G/2/2 in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia.
2001.195.6
Newspaper article `Deanamh a` Leighis` by Mary Beith
A healing tree in Melness known in Gaelic as `The tree of Farquhar the physician`.
2001.196.1
Report by Patrick Baty on the paint used in Upper Square, Hynish, September 2001.
Comments on the early decoration of Upper Square, Hynish following an examination of the paint on an exterior door, an interior door architrave and an interior wall.
2001.197.1
Photocopy of booklet `Maraekakaho Station Days` by Fleur Fitzsimons
History of the sheep station at Maraekakaho, New Zealand founded by Donald MacLean, Tiree.
1997.21.1
Booklet `Tiree Bards and their Bardachd` by Eric Cregeen and Donald W. MacKenzie.
History and examples of bardachd from 1757 to 1978.
1997.18.6
Photographs of William MacFarlane`s gravestone and the ruins of Balinoe House.
Three photocopied photographs of William MacFarlane`s gravestone in Sorobaigh and two of the ruins of Balinoe House.
1997.18.8
Information from OPRs and 1851 Census re the MacFarlane family of ministers
Information from OPRs and 1851 Census re Duncan, William, Margaret, Donald, Robert Maxwell, Alexander and James MacFarlane.
1997.18.12
Family tree for Robert Maxwell MacFarlane (1819-1893)
Photocopy of hand-drawn family tree for Robert Maxwell MacFarlane, minister, whose father , William, was a crofter at Balinoe.