Photocopied journal extract `The Birds of the Island of Tiree` by Peter Anderson.
List of birds on Tiree by gamekeeper Peter Anderson (continued from 1998.47.4 and continues on 1998.47.6)
1998.47.5
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Dates: 1910s
1998.47.6
Photocopied journal extract `The Birds of the Island of Tiree` by Peter Anderson.
List of birds on Tiree by gamekeeper Peter Anderson (continued from 1998.47.5 and continues on 1998.47.7)
1998.47.7
Photocopied journal extract `The Birds of the Island of Tiree` by Peter Anderson.
List of birds on Tiree by gamekeeper Peter Anderson (continued from 1998.47.6 and continues on 1998.47.8)
1998.47.8
Photocopied journal extract `The Birds of the Island of Tiree` by Peter Anderson.
List of birds on Tiree by gamekeeper Peter Anderson (continued from 1998.47.7 and concludes on 1998.47.9)
1998.47.9
Photocopied journal extract `The Birds of the Island of Tiree` by Peter Anderson.
Notes on gamekeeper Peter Anderson`s list of birds by J. A Harvie-Brown (conclusion of 1998.47.4-8).
2003.29.1
Audio cassette recording of John Fletcher, Balemartine, interviewed by Maggie Campbell on 8/2/2003.
John Fletcher of Balemartine talks to Maggie Campbell in March 2003 about different methods of domestic lighting, such as oil lamps, Chinese lanterns and Tilley lamps, their use and maintenance, before electricity came to Tiree in the mid-1950s; also the use of dog-fish liver oil in the cure of ringworm and scurvy. Tha Iain Fletcher a Baile Mhartainn a’ bruidhinn ri Magaidh Chaimbeul ann am Mart 2003 mu dòighean soillse de gach seòrsa ann an dachaigh mar làmpa ola, làmpa Shìna agus làmpa Tilley, am feum agus an dòigh air an cumail an òrdugh mun dh’ thàinig an dealan do Thiriodh anns na leth-ceudan, cuideachd feum ola grùthan a’ bhearaich airson leighis buaileag-thimchill agus an t-achas tioram.
1998.31.1
Photocopied booklet `MacAidh Thiridhe` by elder Norman MacDonald
Book about United Free Church minister Donald MacKay who served Tiree for 29 years between 1882 and 1911. The church is now Kirkapol Guest House and the manse Taigh a` Ruadh.
1998.36.10
Photocopied tribute to Rev. Hector MacKinnon by Rev. A. M. MacLean in 1913.
Transcript of the tribute to the Rev. Hector MacKinnon from Kirkapol by Rev. A. M. MacLean in Pailey Abbey on 11/2/1913.
1998.36.14
Photocopied letter from Rev. Hector MacKinnon to his mother dated 16/2/1912.
Letter from Rev. Hector MacKinnon of Shettleston to his mother at Lodge Farm, Kirkapol dated 16/2/1912, a year before his death.
1999.129.4
Thomas Barr, tenant of Balephetrish Farm 1864-1912
Photograph of Thomas Barr, tenant of Balephetrish Farm 1864-1912.
Courtesy of Mr Angus Munn
In the mid-19th century, the 8th Duke of Argyll was keen to modernise Tiree’s agriculture and introduce dairy farming which he thought admirably suited to island’s pasturage. In 1864 he signed a 19-year lease for £400 a year with Robert Barr, a farmer from Dalry in Ayrshire.
So keen was the Duke for his new tenant to be successful he amalgamated the farms of Vaul, Balephetrish, the Reef, Kenovay and Crossapol to make a sizeable holding of over 3,000 acres. He also repaired the farmhouse and erected byres, stables, cart sheds and other outhouses.
Robert Barr sent his son Thomas to the island to establish the farm. Some cheese was made, but Tom Barr soon found that breeding beef cattle and horses was more lucrative. He introduced the first Clydesdale stallions to Tiree and also introduced the first mechanised hay rake.
Black and white photograph of Thomas Barr of Balephetrish Farm.
Thomas Barr who farmed in Balephetrish from 1864 to 1912.