Programme of events for A` Bhuain in May 2006.
Programmes of events at A` Bhuain 22-26 May 2006.
2008.3.1
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2008.1.1
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 407, 5/1/2008.
Local news and events including the redevelopment of Oban airport and more funding for Gaelic.
2007.126.7
Colour photograph of Glenda McPhadden Franklin at Caoles in 2002.
Glenda McPhadden Franklin, great-great-granddaughter of Alexander MacPhaiden (1790-1878), son of Charles MacPhaiden and his wife Christy MacPhail, at the site of their croft in Caoles in 2002.
2007.124.1
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 400, 22/9/2007.
Local news and events including new faces at the school, An Talla, the youth club, councillor Gordon Chalmersand the Community Trust.
2007.124.2
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 401, 5/10/2007.
Local news and events including the PWA Wave World Cup and Wave Classic, Cairin`s trip to the Amazon and updates from the RSPB, An Talla and the school.
2007.124.3
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 402, 20/10/2007.
Local news and events including the windsurfing World Cup, Rona`s fund-raising for the Beatson Cancer Centre and Tiree Fitness Solutions.
2007.124.4
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 403, 3/11/2007.
Local news and events including Donald Berry in Zimbabwe and Cameroon, John Bowler`s book launch, the cattle sale, and updates from the RSPB and WRI.
2007.124.5
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 404, 17/11/2007.
Local news and events including the Christmas Craft Fayre, grants for Gaelic community projects and update from the WRI.
2007.123.1
Otter at Gott Bay
Photograph of an otter at Gott Bay in April 2007.
Courtesy of Mrs Carole Russell
Paul and Grace Yoxon of the International Otter Survival Fund based in Skye conducted an otter survey of Tiree for a week in August 2003. The coastline was mapped for secondary evidence of otters: spraints (droppings), sprainting points, freshwater pools, lie ups and holts (dens).
Five otters were sighted during the survey and nine major holts found. From this data, the number of otters resident on Tiree was estimated to be between six and eight. From analysis of the spraints, their diet consisted mainly of marine fish supplemented with hare.
While on holiday in April 2007, Carole Russell took this photograph of an otter on Gott Bay. The otter appeared from the direction of Soa, swiftly made his way along the waterline then disappeared inland.
Colour photograph of an otter on Gott Bay.
An otter on Gott Bay, photographed one eveing in April 2007.
2007.116.1
Donald MacIntyre and Lady Dawn
Photograph of Donald MacIntyre with his Clydesdale mare Lady Dawn of Gott.
Courtesy of Mrs Claudia Ferguson-Smyth
Donald MacIntyre was photographed with his Clydesdale mare Lady Dawn of Gott in the summer of 2006 by Claudia Ferguson-Smyth. Dawn is looking somewhat dejected. She has been tormented by clegs (horse-flies); the lumps from their bites can be seen on her flanks.
Donald has bred Clydesdale horses for nearly seventy years and exhibited them regularly at the Highland Show at Ingleston outside Edinburgh. He once won fourth prize for a three-year-old mare in the 1970s and enjoyed competing in the horse-shoeing events.
From a long line of blacksmiths in Gott, Donald has always made and fitted the shoes for his own horses. Before the days of tractors he used to go to Coll every March and November for about a fortnight to shoe horses and repair farm implements. His is the last working smithy on Tiree.
Colour photograph of Donald MacIntyre of Gott with his Clydesdale mare Lady taken in the summer of 2006.
Donald MacIntyre of Gott with his Clydesdale mare Lady photographed in the summer of 2006 by Claudia Ferguson-Smyth.