CD-ROM `Ainmean-aite ann an Sgire na Coigich` by Donnie Fraser.
Gaelic place-names in Coigach, Wester Ross.
2002.179.22
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1997.235.1
Audio cassette recording of Seumas na Croige with Alan Boyd.
Alan Boyd talks to James MacDonald (Seumas na Croige) of West Hynish about his sea-faring days and being shipwrecked in World War I, his schooldays at Balemartine School, the people of West Hynish and Bail’ Ur, their nicknames and genealogy, fishing and different types of seaweed, thatched houses, healing powers, Captain Donald MacKinnon of the Great China Tea Race, and place-names in Balephuil and West Hynish. Gàidhlig neo-mhodail: Tha Ailean Bòid a’ bruidhinn ri Seumas Mac Dhòmhnaill (Seumas na Croige) as na Cùiltean mu na làithean aige aig fairge agus mar a chaidh am bàta air an robh e air na sgeirean ’sa Cheud Chogadh, làithean sgoile ann am Baile Mhàrtainn, muinntir nan Cùiltean agus am Bail’ Ùr, a far-ainm agus an sloinneadh aca, iasgach, deifir sheòrsa feamainn, taighean tugha, comasan leigheis, an sgiobair Dòmhnall Mac Fhionghainn, fear Reis Mhòr an Ti Shina agus ainmean-aite ann am Baile Phuill agus na Cùiltean
1997.221.24
Hand-drawn Gaelic map of Ruaig, Salum and Caoles.
Gaelic map of Ruiag Salum and Caoles showing houses, field or croft boundaries and names of sea-inlets.
1997.152.2
Summary of historical Tiree place-names.
List of Tiree place-names from documents in Latin.
1997.129.1
Photocopy of `Tiree Notes` from Prof. Angus MacKinnon.
Some derivations of place-names by Professor Angus MacKinnon from a series of articles published in `The Scotsman`, 1887-8.
1997.130.3
Photocopied list of the derivations of a few place-names on Coll.
List of derivations of a few place-names on Coll.
1997.130.6
Photocopied list of Tiree place-names.
Short list of Tiree place-names giving their meaning.
1997.131.1
Photocopied extract from an unknown publication about the Norse elements in place-names in Argyll.
List of place-names in Argyll with Norse elements. Tiree entries have been circled in pencil.
1997.136.1
Photocopied extract from `The Place-names of Argyll` by Cameron Gillies, M.D.
List of place-names in Tiree and Coll and their derivations (two copies).
2000.10.8
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.