Ledger of store accounts belonging to Dugald MacKinnon.
Ledger of store accounts, part of the papers of Dugald MacKinnon from Scarinish who emigrated to Queensland, Australia.
1999.200.23
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Dates: 1900s
1999.200.0
Letters and other papers of Dugald MacKinnon who emigrated to Australia.
Collection of letters and other papers of Dugald MacKinnon (Dughall an Oir) who was born in Scarinish and emigrated to Adavale in Queensland, Australia.
1999.173.2
Copied newspaper artcicle about New Zealand pioneer Archibald MacLean.
Obituary for Archibald MacLean (1844-1929) originally from Greenhill who was one of the Hawke`s Bay pioneers.
1999.178.1
Report by Dr Alistair Dawson `Assessment of Landform Changes in Dune/Machair Systems of Coll and Tiree`.
Report consisting of field observations in 1999 of coastal regions in Tiree and Coll compared with aerial photographs taken in 1994 and O/S maps of 1878.
1999.191.22
Photocopied newspaper article about the sale of the Tiree by the Duke of Argyll.
Tiree was offered for sale by auction by the Duke of Argyll but withdrawn when there were no bids.
2003.102.1
Photocopy of `Leanabh an Aigh`.
Fourteen verses of Leanabh an Aigh (Child in the Manger) written by Mairi MacDougall, Mull.
2003.102.3
Photocopy of `Se Tiriodh an t-Eilean` by Neil MacLaine.
Gaelic poem of seven verses by bard Neil MacLaine.
1999.157.3
Hardback book `Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland` by John Gregorson Campbell. The following extract is a transcription from the book.
Fairy dogs (‘Cu sith’)
The fairies often kept hounds as watchdogs, which sometimes accompanied fairy women on their expeditions or roamed about alone, making their lairs in the clefts of rocks.
Rev. John Gregorson Campbell described these dogs as being ‘as large as a two-year-old stirk’ with, in some cases, ‘a long tail rolled up in a coil on its back…Its immense footmarks [were] as large as the spread of a human hand…’ Some said its motion was silent; others that it made a noise like a galloping horse.
‘There is a considerable interval between each bark, and at the third (it only barks thrice) the terror-struck hearer is overtaken and destroyed, unless he has by that time reached a place of safety.’
1999.166.1
Family history of the MacDougall family from Tiree who emigrated to Ontario, Canada.
Family history of the MacDougall family from Tiree who emigrated to Ontario, Canada.
1999.167.13
Heylipol Church in 1900
Transcription of a letter from the Rev. Dugald MacLean to the Duke of Argyll about the condition of Heylipol Church in 1900.
Courtesy of His Grace the Duke of Argyll
In medieval times Tiree was divided in two parishes, Kirkapol in the east under the Bishop of the Isles and Soroby in the west under the Abbot of Iona. In 1618 the two parishes were united with Coll. In 1865 Coll was severed from Tiree and ten years later Soroby was severed from Kirkapol.
A church at Heylipol had been built in 1839 to serve the west of the island where the greater part of the population lived. In this letter of 1900, the Rev. Dugald MacLean describes the dangerous and dilapidated state of the church despite many repairs carried out over the previous twenty years.
A new church designed by William Mackenzie was erected on the site in 1902. Of cruciform Gothic design with a bell tower over the entrance porch and large enough to accommodate 365 worshippers, the church is still in current use.