Photocopied extract `Parish of Tiry` from `The Statistical Account of Scotland 1791-99`.
Information about the geography and topography of Tiree, its agriculture and livestock, water mills, climate, diseases and population, fuel, industries and fishing, local customs, education, travel and religion.
United Auctions catalogue for sale held on 24/5/2002.
Catalogue for the annual May sale of cattle and sheep listing animals and owners.
Newspaper article about wintering cattle on wood chip corrals.
Fact-finding trip to assess whether wintering cattle in wood chip corrals would be suitable for West coast farming systems. Two photographs, one with Lachie MacLean, Druimfraoich, on the extreme right.
Newspaper cutting about the United Auctions sale prices on Tiree.
Sale prices of cattle and sheep.
Hardback book `The Northern and Western Islands of Scotland` by Frances J Shaw.
An investigation into the economy of the Scottish islands in the 17th century.
Copy of newspaper article ` Tiree crofters fly to Ulster`.
Photograph of 18 crofters at the airport about to depart on fact-finding mission to Ulster.
Copy of newspaper article about the Clydesdale horses bred by Donald MacIntyre.
Photograph of two thoroughbred Cyldesdale mares and their foals bred by Donald MacIntyre, Gott.
Audio cassette recording of Donald MacIntyre, Gott, interviewed by Maggie Campbell on 18/1/2000.
Donald MacIntyre talks to Maggie Campbell about the people in Gott, their work and their houses, the smiddy, the decline in the number of horses and blacksmiths, shoeing horses and making implements, breeding and showing Clydesdales and training foals.
Book `George Washington Wilson in the Hebrides` by Donald MacAulay.
Photographs dating from c. 1870 to 1908 portraying the Hebrides through landscape, ships, buildings, people and their activities. Detailed commentary explaining building features, activities, clothes etc
De-accessioned 1.3.2026.
Book `The Book of Barra` ed. by John Lorne Campbell.
Local and religious history, schools, customs and topography, agriculture, fishing and other industries, literature, the Crofters` Commission (1883), Norse Place-names, flora and fauna, and index of persons and places.
