Photocopied handwritten account of the Balephuil fishing disaster in 1856 by Alexander MacKinnon.
2004.139.3
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2004.140.1
End weight (an cruaidh) for a flounder line found on the beach at Mannal.
2004.134.6
Video recording of an unknown BBC programme about boarded out children broadcast in 1996.
Programme about children boarded out to Hebridean islands, the work they did on the crofts and how they were treated, featuring Hector MacPhail of Ruaig, Bernie Smith of West Hynish, Jean MacCallum of Balevullin, Robert Gray of Balemartine, Tommy Monaghan of Heanish and John Fletcher of Balemartine.
2004.114.1
Newletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 323, 10/7/2004.
Local news and events including the opening of An Talla, the Milton Fishermen`s Fund, Tiree Housing Survey, broadband, the Guelph Gathering, Scottish Community of the Year award and news from the Gardening Club, the doctor`s surgery and the school.
2004.105.3
Newspaper article about a trawler crew blown ashore on Tiree.
The crew of the shipwrecked Fleetwood trawler `Cormorant` were adrift in a small boat without rowlocks or a bung and were eventually washed ashore on Tiree.
2004.99.1
Audio cassette recording of Gilleasbuig Kennedy, West Hynish talking to Maggie Campbell in June 2004.
(Continued from AC354) Gilleasbuig Kennedy of West Hynish talks to Maggie Campbell in June 2004 about the area round his house at ‘Na Cuiltean’, the place-names of West Hynish, the dangers of submerged rocks in the sea around the township, his memories of his father teaching him the markers to guide the boat in safety, and a visit to Skerryvore when he climbed the lighthouse.
2004.95.9.1
Three colour postcards of Tiree.
Colour postcards of a Tiree sunset, a Tiree croft house, and a Tiree fishing boat.
2004.86.1
Paperback book `Tiree Tales` by Fiona E. MacKinnon translated by Margaret MacKay, 1997.
A collection of 25 stories from Tiree by Fiona MacKinnon of Lodge Farm, Kirkapol and translated into Gaelic by Margaret MacKay.
2004.83.1
Audio cassette recording of John and Jean MacPhail of Balephuil talking to Maggie Campbell in June 2004.
John and Jean MacPhail of Balephuil talk to Maggie Campbell in June 2004 about how the world was a better place when they were young, how busy Balephuil was and how very few locals live in the township; they discuss the bards of Balephuil, how no-one speaks Gaelic or writes songs anymore, and fishing.
2001.80.1
Black and white photograph of John MacDonald of Burnside, Mannal and Neil MacLean of Hough with a catch of cod in the late 1960s.
Once plentiful on the fishing banks to the north and west of the island, cod and ling were fished commercially in the 19th century using long lines. In the 20th century only the local fishermen still went out to the banks for white fish for which there was a ready market on the island. They used bottom lines for cod, mid-water lines for smaller saithe and mackerel and small lines for flat fish.
Cod were fished using hand lines (‘beairt’) with two to six hooks on each baited with limpets (‘maorach’) or lugworms dug from the beach. Fishing line used to be made from horse hair either by spinning or plaiting it. It was still being made on Tiree in the 1940s.
Courtesy of Mrs Johann MacArthur