Three handwritten Gaelic songs/poems by Rev Hector Cameron, Cornaigmore, around 1920. The first lin/title of each is (1) Air faillirinn o, ‘sna ho orinn o (title – Fear a’ bhata?), (2) Nach aithne shuit fhein?, (3) title – Naire graibh.
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Handwritten letter from Rev. Hector Cameron, Cornaigmore, to his daughter Edith around 1920 about his translation into English of a Gaelic song beginning ‘Fair my dear, my Highland laddie’, which he wrote on the reverse of the sheet. Includes some other news.
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Black and white portrait photograph of Reverend Hector Cameron, around 1915. Rev Cameron was born in Cornaigmore and became a Gaelic scholar, the editor of the book `Tiree Bards’, co-author of `The Handbook to the Islands of Coll and Tiree`, and writer of Gaelic poetry.
Small hardback book ‘A Gaelic-Scots Vocabulary’, 1930, which belonged to Allan MacDougall, Headteacher at Cornaigmore School during the 1940s.
Small hardback book ‘Gnathasan Cainnte (Gaelic Idioms)’, 1932, which belonged to Allan MacDougall, Headteacher at Cornaigmore School in the 1940s.
Small hardback book in Gaelic ‘Am Measg nam Bodach’, 1938, which belonged to Allan MacDougall, Headteacher at Cornaigmore School in the 1940s.
Large hardback book ‘Leabhar na Feinne’, 1872. Published collection of heroic Gaelic ballads from the period 1512-1871, presented to Cornaigmore School by James Coates, Paisley, in 1905. James Coates donated many books to Tiree, including The Reading Room’s library (now An Iodhlann). From a collection from Mannal House.
Photocopies of a newspaper obituary and marriage certificate for William Agnew (1862-1931) who may have been the Headmaster at Cornaig School during 1915-1922. A widower, he married his housekeeper Catherine MacDonald on the mainland in 1919 while living at the School House, Cornaigmore. Letter from his grandson John Agnew to Dr Holliday, 2015, with additional information.
Photograph of the millpond at Cornaig, 2014.
Colour photograph of the millpond at Cornaig Mill after it was cleaned out by David Naylor and family in 2014. They found eels, sticklebacks and trout.
Wooden, pedal-operated spinning wheel made by Archie MacLean (Èirdsidh an Tuairneir), Cornaigmore. On loan from Mary MacLean, The Coolins, Scarinish
