Information about Coll MacColl of Tiree (1787-1842)
History of Coll MacColl, son of the Rev. Archibald MacColl of Tiree, compiled by Alasdair Roberts in 2013. “As a young man he fathered an illegitimated child in Tiree, went as a gardener to Bishop Ranald MacDonald`s Lismore seminary, became a Catholic and then a priest, undertaking pastoral journeys through the Highlands. Emigrated to Australia after falling out with the Vicar General in Arisaig, dying within 3 weeks of arrival.”
Photograph of a drying rack for tangles at Balevullin in 2000
Colour photograph of a rack made of wooden planks and oil drums at Neil MacKinnon`s croft at Balevullin in 2000. Bales of tangles (kelp seaweed stalks) would be untied and laid over the rack to allow air to circulate underneath the stalks, thus drying them.
Photograph of tangle being weighed at Balevullin in 2000.
Colour photograph of tangles being weighed at Neil MacKinnon`s croft at Balevullin in July 2000, before being loaded onto lorries destined for the mainland.
Photograph of a tractor adapted for loading tangles in 2000
Colour photograph of a tractor at Neil MacKinnon`s croft at Balevullin in 2000, with its bucket replaced by two wooden palettes for loading dried tangles onto waiting lorries.
Notes about the tangle harvest by Neil MacKinnon, Balevullin, in 1996-2000
Photocopy of handwritten notes by Neil MacKinnon, Balevullin, regarding the collection, weight, storage and transport of tangle harvests collected by himself from Balevullin, and from other collectors elsewhere on the island between 1996 and 2000.
Photograph of loading dried tangles onto a lorry in 2000
Colour photograph of a specially adapted tractor loading dried tangles (kelp seaweed stalks) onto a waiting lorry at Neil MacKinnon`s croft at Balevullin in 2000.
