Black and white photograph of Angus MacDonald, Kilkenneth with a horse.
Angus MacDonald, Kilkenneth, with a Clydesdale horse.
1998.98.9
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1998.98.17
Black and white photograph of Archie MacDonald, Melness with a Clydesdale horse.
Archie MacDonald, Melness with a Clydesdale horse called Cora.
1998.98.18
Black and white photograph of Angus and Donald MacDonald, Kilkenneth.
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1998.98.19
Black and white photograph of Archie MacDonald, Melness, with two Clydesdales.
Archie MacDonald, Melness, with two Clydesdales, one of whom was called Donna.
2002.152.6
Photocopied pages from a 2002 calendar sold in aid of a school trip.
Drawing and text about the road to Dunollie Castle used by drovers from Tiree 200 years ago, from `The Oban Calendar 2002` sold in aid a Primary 7 school trip to Castle Toward.
1997.179.9
Isabella MacLean of Kilmoluaig with her cows
Photograph of Isabella MacLean with her cows in Kilmoluaig.
Courtesy of Ms Linda Gowans
Isabella MacLean was photographed with her cows by George Holleyman, an archaeologist in the RAF police posted to Tiree during World War II. Her father was a crofter and fisherman, known locally as ‘The Mate’. Isabella herself was known as Bella Mhate.
She lived on her own in a thatched cottage on her eighteen acre croft in Kilmoluaig. The cottage had an earthen floor and all her furniture, including her box bed, was made from driftwood. Lighting was by oil lamp.
Her income came from a herd of six cattle and a flock of around forty sheep. She also had grazing rights on another croft. Neither croft was cultivated but she grew a small patch of potatoes. Bella was also an expert cheese maker.
Black and white photograph of Isabella MacLean, Kilmoluaig.
Isabella MacLean (Bella Mhate) of Kilmoluaig with her cows, photographed by George Holleyman in the early 1940s.
1997.179.12
Black and white photograph of Mary MacLean, Balevullin.
Mary MacLean with two sheep photographed by George Holleyman outside her thatched cottage in Balevullin in the early 1940s. Note the whale vertebrae in the foreground.
1997.176.1
Black and white photograph of Iain, the herd boy.
Photograph from a small album from Silversands, Vaul, titled `Maighstir Iain`, as either (1) Iain MacFarlane, (brother of Lachie MacFarlane of Hynish) identified by Chrissie, Lachie`s widow. Iain died at sea at the beginning of WWII. Or (2) Jimmy Purdon, the first child `boarded out` with Elsie MacKinnon, Kirkapol. Identified by his brother via Fiona MacKinnon, Lodge Farm in 2010. Probably taken in the late 1920s to early 1930s.
1997.176.5
Black and white photograph of Iain, the herd boy.
Photograph from a small album from Silversands, titled `The herd laddie` taken in the late 1920s to early 1930s. Herding was done by boys when they left school at 14. As the common grazings and many fields were unfenced, their job was to keep cattle, sheep and horses within the township boundaries and out of the crops. Until wire fencing was introduced in the 1890s, fields were sometimes enclosed with turf or stone walls. From May to October, Iain would have stayed in a ‘bothag’, a small round building constructed of stone and roofed with turfs over a timber frame.
1997.172.2
Black and white photograph of Peggy MacEachern in 1940.
Peggy MacEachern with a calf outside Creag Mhor in Cornaigbeg in 1940.