CD Pròiseact Thiriodh CD-SA1974-72.
Hector Kennedy of Kilkenneth talks about the former residents at Balephuil Cnoc, the shepherd to MacNiven of Barrapol, the Barrapol grazing committee, Donald MacNeill the tailor, the families who lived at the Land, the former residents of the Bail’ Ùr and the Rudha and the life of John Kennedy who died around 1920.
Mini-disk SA1974/72.
Hector Kennedy of Kilkenneth talks about the former residents at Balephuil Cnoc, the shepherd to MacNiven of Barrapol, the Barrapol grazing committee, Donald MacNeill the tailor, the families who lived at the Land, the former residents of the Bail’ Ùr and the Rudha and the life of John Kennedy who died around 1920.
Colour photograph of 9 Barrapol, taken in 2003.
Hector and Johann MacKinnon`s thatched house at 9 Barrapol, photographed by Catriona Hunter in 2003.
Colour photograph of Taigh Neilidh Neill an Drobhair, Barrapol in 2003.
The chimney of Taigh Neilidh Nèill an Drobhair, Barrapol photographed by Dr John Holliday in 2003.
Colour photograph of Taigh Dhonnchaidh Dhomhnaill `ic Neill in Balevullin in 2003.
The stones holding down the netting on the thatch of Taigh Neilidh Nèill an Drobhair, Barrapol photographed by Dr John Holliday in 2003.
Black and white photograph of Ina and Isabella MacFadyen.
Lochside, Barrapol in the late 1920s early 1930s. L-R: Ina MacFadyen and her mother Isobel MacFadyen.
Audio cassette recording of Hugh MacLean of Barrapol talking to John Donald MacLean in May 1998.
Hugh MacLean (Eòghann Dhòmhnaill Eòghainn Mhòir) of Barrapol talks to John Donald MacLean (Teòn Dòmhnall a’ Mhuilinn) about shipwrecks around the Tiree coasts, seamen’s burial grounds, fishing, shooting cormorants and geese, seaweed as food, the changes in people’s diet and children’s toys, his first bike, self-taught pipers and fiddlers, the genealogy of Pipe Major John MacDonald, the names of Kennavara’s cliffs and caves, and Heylipol School. Tha Eòghann Dhòmhnaill Eòghainn Mhòir a Goirtean Dòmhnall a’ bruidhinn ri Teòn Dòmhnall a’ Mhuilinn mu na luing-bhriste a tha mun cuairt cladaichean Thiriodh, cladha na maraiche, iasgach, a’ sealg sgairbh agus geòidh, ùis feamainn na biadh, na h-atharrachaidhean ann an biadh dhaoine agus dèideagan cloinne, a’ cheud rothair a bha aige fhèin, pìobairean agus fidhlearan a ionnsaich iad fhèin, Màidsear Pìobaireachd Iain Mhic Dhòmhnaill, ainmeannan agus uaimh Cheann a’ Bhara agus Sgoil na Mòintich.
Audio cassette recording of Ishbel MacArthur of Barrapol talking to Maggie Campbell in March 2001.
Ishbel MacArthur of Barrapol talks to Maggie Campbell in March 2001 about childbirth and childcare, the comparison between bringing up her five children in the 1960s and 1970s and the easier methods of today, e.g. car seats, baby alarms and walkers, playgroups, disposable nappies and baby clinics; Ishbel also talks about her schooldays in Balemartine. Tha Iseabail Nic Artair a Goirtean Dhòmhnaill a’ bruidhinn ri Magaidh Chaimbeul ann an Mart 2001 mu aisead agus cùram cloinne, an t-eadar dhealachadh air a bhi togail còignear de theaghlaich eadar 1960 agus 1980, ’s ach na dòighean furasda ’s na laithean an diugh, cathairean carbad, sanas naoidhean agus taic coisiche, cròileaganan, foichein pàipear, leighis-lann naoidhean; tha Iseabail a’ bruidhinn cuideachd mu a laithean sgoile ann am Baile Mhàrtainn.
Black and white photograph of Archie Sinclair of Barrapol and his brother Neil in the 1930s.
Archie Sinclair (Eairdsidh Dan) of Barrapol and his brother Neil in the 1930s.
Black and white photograph of Mary Morrison at her spinning wheel.
Mary Morrison, great-grandmother of Lachie MacDonald, Middleton, at her spinning wheel at the Land in Barrapol, taken when she was aged 55-60.
