The Colin MacPhail collection – file folder 1
Collection of original letters, documents, photographs etc. from 1920-1970, found in Colin MacPhail`s byre at Crossapol. Includes: biography of Colin MacPhail with birth, marriage & death certificates, correspondence and articles regarding the Tiree Show, photographs, wartime preparations, the Tiree Association, Northern & Scottish Airways and personal letters. For example:
The Colin MacPhail collection – file folder 2
Collection of original letters, documents, photographs etc. from 1920-1970, found in Colin MacPhail`s byre at Crossapol. Includes: correspondence and articles about his crofts and crofting, drainage, auction marts and the Balephetrish Sheep Stock Club. For example:
The Colin MacPhail collection – file binder 3
Collection of original letters, documents, photographs etc. from 1920-1970, found in Colin MacPhail`s byre at Crossapol. Includes: correspondence and articles regarding school, doctors, foster children and personal shopping. For example:
Booklet `Tìr an Èorna` 2003
Booklet about corn production on Tiree, cereal types, sowing, harvesting, storing and traditions associated with the harvest. Researched by Dr John Holliday for a summer exhibition at An Iodhlann.
Booklet `Milkit Four Times in the Day` 2012
Booklet about the history of agriculture on Tiree, with reference to livestock, sales, cattle shows, vets, animal health, butchers, hens, potatoes, bulbs, seaweed and Gaelic words. Researched by Dr John Holliday for a summer exhibition at An Iodhlann.
Extract from the Scottish Geographical Journal, 2012, about machair habitats.
Photocopied extract from the Scottish Geographical Journal, 2012, about changes in the management of machair habitats.
Book “The Catholic Knight of Crofting” by Donald Meek 1993
Softback book about Donald MacFarlane (1830-1904), defender of croft land and crofters` rights, written as an academic study by Prof. Donald E Meek, Caoles, in 1993, and reprinted from the transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness (1995). Includes songs that were written about Donald MacFarlane and recited on Tiree and Mull into the 1980s.
Men`s leather gaiters
Two pairs of men`s brown leather gaiters worn by crofters over their shins and calves. One long pair and one for just around the ankles. Worn by John Fletcher`s (Balemartine) father and found in the house that used to stand at Pairc na Coille, Balephuil. Manufactured by F.C. Chamberlain & Co., Wellingborough, in around 1910-1920, probably for WWI army uniform.
Head of a rutting/ritting spade
Head of a rutting or ritting spade designed for cutting turves for roofing or for digging ditches. Shovel-shaped with long flat spike out to one side. Found in the garden of Lonsdale Cottage, Heanish.
Article about `The Island of Tiree` in the Scottish Geographical Magazine, 1962
Photocopy of an article about the geology, population and land use of Tiree.
