Object Type: academia

1998.44.5

Township history for Scarinish researched and written by Hector MacPhail.

Information about smacks and schooners owned in Tiree, Scarinish pier, the Scarinish MacLeans, MacDonalds and MacFadyens, and master mariners.

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1998.44.6

Township history for Soay, Brock, Ruaig and Salum researched and written by Hector MacPhail.

Information about Soay and about prominent families in Brock, Ruaig and Salum – the MacKinnons/Sinclairs, Lamonts, MacLeans, MacLeods and MacInneses.

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2003.27.2

Report `Farm Study` by Julie MacInnes of Shawlands Academy.

Report by Julie MacInnes (part of the coursework for unknown qualification taken at Shawlands Academy) which examines the characteristics of crofting and how it is affected by the physical environment and distance from markets. Looks in details at two crofts – Donald Kennedy`s croft in Balevullin and Corrairigh in Cornaigbeg.

2003.26.1

Press release about an addition to the BOU British List (of birds).

An Ascension frigatebird was found exhausted on Tiree on 9/7/1953 and died later the same day. The bird is now added to the British List. Additional information about the British Ornithologists` Union.

2002.176.1

Report on a coastal zone assessment survey on Coll and Tiree (Volume 1) by Hazel Moore and Graeme Wilson.

Volume 1 of a coastal zone assessment survey on Coll and Tiree carried out in 2001 to assess the nature and future risk to archaeological sites.

2002.176.2

Report on a coastal zone assessment survey on Coll and Tiree (Volume 2) by Hazel Moore and Graeme Wilson.

Volume 2 of a coastal zone assessment survey on Coll and Tiree carried out in 2001 to assess the nature and future risk to archaeological sites.