Newsletter of the Tiree Heritage Society `Friends of the Tiree Chapels`, No. 7, 17/8/2004.
News about the Gaelic version of the Pilgrimage Route Guidebook, the information boards for the chapels, broch, ringing stone and Soroby graveyard, the repairs to the bridges at the Kirkapol chapel site and Tobair Eachainn, funding and fund-raising.
Colour photograph of Rev. Bob Higham and teacher Margaret MacKay in 2001.
Rev. Bob Higham and Gaelic teacher Margaret MacKay outside Heylipol Church after the Feis Service in July 2001.
Photocopied handwritten information about individual Tiree people in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Biographical notes about individual Tiree people: John MacLean (Am Bard MacGhilleathain); merchant John Campbell of Scarinish (d. 1817); Colin MacNiven, Greenhill (18th century); Dugald MacEachern, schoolmaster (b. 1789); Rev John MacLean of Cornaig (b. 1841); Donald MacKechnie of Kenovay, joiner and postmaster (b. 1846); Captain Angus Lamont of Cornaig (b. 1844); tailor John MacPhail of Cornaigmore (b. 1846); John MacLucas, Balephuil (d. 1875).
Print of Rev John MacLean from Cornaig.
Rev. John MacLean (b. 1829) of Cornaig, minister of St Columba Gaelic Church in Glasgow 1888-1917.
Black and white photograph of Rev John MacLean from Cornaig (copied from print).
Rev. John MacLean, born 1829 the son of farmer Allan MacLean of Cornaig. He was minister of St Columba Gaelic Church in Glasgow 1888-1917.
Black and white photograph of Rev. Allan MacDougall (1846-1938).
Rev. Allan MacDougall (1846-1938), the son of Archibald MacDougall (b. 1796) and his wife Margaret MacLean of Carnan. He preached in Bunessan and Colonsay before settling in Harrapol in Skye where he raised his family before retiring to Milton in 1920.
Audio cassette recording of Janet MacIntosh of Scarinish talking to Maggie Campbell on 21/5/2004.
Janet MacIntosh of Urvaig talks to Maggie Campbell in May 2004 about her schooldays in Balemartine, her childhood and wartime memories, Sunday customs, her travels round Scotland as a pilgrim, women’s clothing and work, baptisms in Tiree, the 19th century Baptist revival on the Ross of Mull, the Community Council, differences between the east and west of Tiree, self education, second sight and ghost stories, Tiree Bards, the hardness of life in the past with poverty, disease and the death of children; Janet finishes by singing a hymn composed by Neil MacDonald of Kilmoluaig
Hardback book `Caraid nan Gaigheal` edited by Rev. A. Clerk.
A choice selection of Gaelic writings by Rev. Norman MacLeod.
Hardback book `Prose Writings of Donald Lamont 1874-1958` edited by Thoma M. Murchison.
Collections of essays by Dr Donald Lamont (1874-1958) from Tiree.
Hardback book `The Scottish Historical Review, Volume First’, 1904.
The first in a new series of publications by the Scottish Antiquary established in 1886. Includes an article titled ‘On a Legend from the Island of Tiree’ by RC Graham FSA (pp 113-122), regarding a story from Tiree called `O`Neil, and how his hair was made to grow’, published in ‘Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition’ by Rev John Gregorson Campbell in 1895.
