Photocopied extract from `Outer Isles` by Ada Goodrich Freer, pp 1-61.
Account of a visit to Tiree in 1894.
1997.138.1
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1997.119.2
Photocopied extract `Tiree – Pre-Reformation Chapels and Burial-Grounds` from `Coll and Tiree` by Erskine Beveridge.
Descriptions of the thirteen ancient chapels on Tiree.
1997.123.1
Photocopied extracts from `Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland by Rev. John Gregorson Campbell.
Extracts referring to superstitions held on Tiree, mainly about fairies.
1997.124.1
Photocopied extract from unknown publication giving general information about Tiree.
Brief description of Tiree – landscape, history, housing, communications, townships and weather.
1997.108.1
Photocopied extract from `The Old and New Hebrides` by James Cameron, pp 89-100.
The formation of a Land League in Tiree, the possession of Greenhill farm and the subsequent sending of warships to Tiree to arrest the men who had put stock on the vacant farm.
1997.109.1
Photocopied extract `Parish of Tiry` from `The Statistical Account of Scotland 1791-99`.
Information about the geography and topography of Tiree, its agriculture and livestock, water mills, climate, diseases and population, fuel, industries and fishing, local customs, education, travel and religion.
1997.111.1
Photocopied extract `Three tanged flints from Scotland` by R G Livens, Hunterian Museum.
Article about three stone age flints, one of which was from the Red Mound, Balevullin.
1997.112.1
Photocopied extracts `Folklore from Coll` by Betty MacDougall, pp 2-15, 24-5, 32-5.
Stories from Coll which reference Tiree.
1997.113.1
Photocopied extract `Bangor Abbey` from unknown publication.
Article about Bangor Abbey founded by St Comgall, friend of Columba of Iona.
1997.115.1
Photocopied extract from `Rev. Hector MacKinnon` by his wife, pp 11-28.
First three chapters covering Hector MacKinnon`s childhood and early days, university and his ministry in Tiree.