Handful of dried seaweed `barr-dearg` from Balephetrish, “good for barley”.
2009.16.1
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2009.10.1
Map showing crofts to be created (1892). One inch to one mile.
Map showing crofts to be created (1892). Produced by the Royal Commission (Highlands and Islands).
2009.6.1
Sowing basket / bascaid churachd used by Lachie MacLean, Druimfraoich, to hand-sow seed. Hessian fabric over wooden kidney-shaped frame with canvas strap for around neck. See photo 2003.100.1 for how it was used.
2009.3.1
Magazine: North 7 Issue 28 March/April 1978 with article on Tiree in gaelic (pg11)
Article on Tiree in gaelic in `North 7` magazine in 1978. About the beauty and wealth of the land. Magazine donated by Pat Campell of Balephetrish.
2009.2.1
Copy of a croft rent receipt made out to Mr Neil MacKinnon, Balevullin 4, for £2. Paid on Whitsunday 1953. Received by Iain MacKinnon, Factor, Tiree. Shows blue two pence stamp.
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2008.6.1
Journal extract `Crofters` Common Grazings in Scotland` by James R. Coull.
Paper on common grazings in Scotland with references to Kenovay, Salum, Barrapol, Hough, Balephuil, Ruaig, Hynish and the Reef.
2007.116.1
Donald MacIntyre and Lady Dawn
Photograph of Donald MacIntyre with his Clydesdale mare Lady Dawn of Gott.
Courtesy of Mrs Claudia Ferguson-Smyth
Donald MacIntyre was photographed with his Clydesdale mare Lady Dawn of Gott in the summer of 2006 by Claudia Ferguson-Smyth. Dawn is looking somewhat dejected. She has been tormented by clegs (horse-flies); the lumps from their bites can be seen on her flanks.
Donald has bred Clydesdale horses for nearly seventy years and exhibited them regularly at the Highland Show at Ingleston outside Edinburgh. He once won fourth prize for a three-year-old mare in the 1970s and enjoyed competing in the horse-shoeing events.
From a long line of blacksmiths in Gott, Donald has always made and fitted the shoes for his own horses. Before the days of tractors he used to go to Coll every March and November for about a fortnight to shoe horses and repair farm implements. His is the last working smithy on Tiree.
Colour photograph of Donald MacIntyre of Gott with his Clydesdale mare Lady taken in the summer of 2006.
Donald MacIntyre of Gott with his Clydesdale mare Lady photographed in the summer of 2006 by Claudia Ferguson-Smyth.
2007.97.1
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 395, 14/7/2007.
Local news and events including the Skerryvore CD launch, the Feis, the football tournament, a visit from the Committee of Inquiry on Crofting, and news from the RSPB.
2007.78.1.1
Audio recordings of Jean MacCallum of Balevullin talking to Maggie Campbell on 20/6/2007.
Two cassette tapes (labelled AC430 1 & 2) of Jean MacCallum, Balevullin, talking with Maggie Campbell in June 2007. Tape 1 – about her trip to Orkney with Tiree Rural Development, the differences and similarities between the farming practices and way of life there, and the different resources on Orkney. Tape 2 – about her trip with Tiree Rural Development to Orkney and the hand-knitted jackets and waistcoats made there.
2007.79.1
Minidisk recording of Lachie MacFadyen of Caoles talking to Maggie Campbell on 4/7/2007.
Lachie MacFadyen of Caoles talks to Maggie Campbell in July 2007 about the Tiree Rural Development to Orkney, how Orkney compare with Tiree, the crofting techniques practised there, the famous bere barley mill, their religious beliefs and the Italian Chapel decorated by Italian POWs.