Clydesdale horse shoe made by Donald MacIntyre of Gott.
Clydesdale horse shoe made by Donald MacIntyre of Gott in 2001 to bring luck to new extension to An Iodhlann. Donald has the last working smiddy on Tiree.
2008.13.1
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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.
2007.113.1
CD with eighty-one images of the heavy horse event at 6 Kenovay on 21 July 2007.
Eighty-one photographs of the heavy horse event at 6 Kenovay on 21 July 2007 taken by Peter Knapman of Kenovay.
2007.110.1
Minidisk recording of Tom MacMillan of Rothesay talking to Maggie Campbell on 22/7/2007.
Tom MacMillan of Eskchraggan Farm in Rothesay talks to Maggie Campbell in July 2007 about his visit to the Agricultural Show with his Clydesdale horses Jock and Jeannie, the ploughing demonstration he gave at 6 Kenovay, and the breeding and welfare of Clydesdale horses.
2007.47.1
Six stud books for Clydesdale stallions 1934-1944.
Six stud books for Clydesdale stallions between 1934 and 1944, giving a description of the stallion, its pedigree and charges for service.
2007.47.2
Three handwritten pedigrees for Clydesdale stallions.
Three handwritten pedigrees for Clydesdale stallions: Worthiness, Cauldbarns Pioneer and the third unnamed.
2007.47.3
Letter dated 25/2/1947 from James Holmes to John MacLean of Cornaigbeg.
Letter dated 25/2/1947 from James Holmes to John MacLean of Cornaigbeg, Secretary of the Tiree Heavy Horse Breeding Society, accepting the terms for the service of his stallion Windlaw Priority.
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Receipt dated 1947 addressed to John MacLean of Cornaigbeg from the Clydesdale Horse Society.
Receipt dated 1/5/1947 addressed to John MacLean of Cornaigbeg for postage and membership subscription from the Clydesdale Horse Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
2007.47.5
Two Clydesdale Stud Book entries dated 1/9/1947 for a stallion ‘Pioneer Again’ and a mare ‘Brae Blossom’ bred by John MacLean of the Brae, Cornaigbeg.
2007.47.6
Letter dated 11/11/1947 from the Dept of Agriculture to John MacLean, Secretary of the Tiree Heavy Horse Breeding Society.
Letter dated 11/11/1947 from the Dept of Agriculture to John MacLean, Secretary of the Tiree Heavy Horse Breeding Society, about grants payable for the service of 38 mares in Tiree..