Tag Archives: cornaigbeg

1998.98.15

Black and white photograph of Donald and Margaret MacDonald.

Donald MacDonald (Domhnall Iain) of 10 Cornaigbeg with his wife Margaret who came from Melness in Sutherland, pictured outside their old house in the 1920s.

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1998.98.16

Black and white photograph of brothers John and Archie MacDonald.

L-R: Brothers John (Iain Dhomhnaill Iain) and Archie (Gilleasbuig Dhomhnaill Iain), sons of Donald and Margaret MacDonald of Cornaigbeg (see J16). Photographed during World War I, Archie is in Canadian Army uniform.

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2002.160.1

Audio cassette recording of Hugh Archie MacCallum interviewed by Maggie Campbell on 28/9/2002.

Hugh Archie MacCallum talks to Maggie Campbell in September 2002 about the Cornaigbeg crofts, the crofters’ names and patronymics; old and new methods of farming, seaweed and its uses, cattle shows; shebeens, shops, cobblers, the grocer’s horse-drawn van; the old schoolhouse at Cornaig and the United Free Church at Whitehouse; the evil eye; the shipwreck of the Malve during World War I. Eòghann Èairdsidh ’Ic Chaluim a’ bruidhinn ri Magaidh Chaimbeul anns an t-Sultain 2002 mu croitean Chòrnaig Bhige, ainmean agus sloinneadhan nan croitearan, dòighean sean agus ùr air croitearachd, feamainn, fèill cruidh, shebeens, bùthan, greasaichean, carbad bùtha air a tharraing le each, an t-seann sgoil Chòrnaig agus an Eaglais Shaor aig an Taigh Gheal, an droch shùil, am Malve a chaidh air na sgeirean aig àm a’ Cheud Chogadh.