Small black & white phototgraph of the McLean family on the Ringing Stone in 1934. L-R: Effie, Donald Archie, Isabel, Mary and George. Although they lived in Linlithgow, they spent most summer holidays with family on Tiree. Part of a large collection of items belonging to and about Donald Archibald McLean, Kenovay (1890-1981), and his family.
Article ‘Inspired by Tiree’ by Mavis Gulliver revealing how her children’s novel ‘Cry at Midnight‘ evolved. Scottish Islands Explorer magazine, Sept/Oct, 2014.
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Whole coconut found on the shore at the Ringing Stone in April 2019. It will have floated from the Caribbean on the Gulf Stream currents.
Black & white photograph of Archie MacLean (Whitehouse) and Cornaigmore School headmaster Alan C MacDougall standing by the ringing stone at Vaul in the 1930s.
DVD compilation of sections of old films about Tiree, made in 2016 from videos held in An Iodhlann amongst others. Includes footage of: ferries, the Mary Stewart, Scarinish harbour, Scarinish Hotel, the ringing stone, Nester and Gavin Carter’s bakery and bread making, school bus driven by butcher Donald MacLean, The Reef, livestock health, Balephetrish, Mannal, Balemartine, Baugh, Tiree High School, children singing a traditional Gaelic hunting song, accordion music and several accordionists, Gaelic songs sung by locals at a ceilidh, thatched houses and thatching with Hector Brown, Alexander MacNeill’s opinions on thatched houses (1985), Am Bail Ur in Balephuil, Iain MacKinnon talking in Gaelic and English in his house at Kilmoluaig, Hynish harbour and buildings, harvesting and stooks, Cornaig mill, livestock sales, airport, bands, Balevullin, An Iodhlann, Tiree Music Festival, Travee, aerial view of a seal swimming, bicycles, schoolyard games, sheep shearing, Gott Bay pier, cattle, pipe music, shops, ships, Vaul, timelapse film of the sky as the sun sets and rises, young Eilidh Campbell and her brother talk in Gaelic about life on Tiree. Other people include: Ann Carter, Douglas Carter, Sinclair Carter, Olwen Carter, Monica Smith (nee Davis), Neil MacPhail, Angus MacPhail, Mairi Campbell, Bernard Smith, Iain MacDonald, Iain Brown, Iain MacLean, Myra Brown, Hector Campbell, Alex MacArthur, Gordon Connell.
Notes about Bronze Age `Rock Art` or ring and cup markings.
Handwritten notes, email and printed internet pages about Bronze Age cup markings in rocks. Provided by John Wombell after a visit to West Hynish in 2013, where he found some worked flints (see 2013.94.1).
Ordnance Survey map sheet LXV & LXXIX
Map of the eastern areas of Tiree from Baugh in the south to the Ringing Stone in the north, at a scale of 6 inches to the mile (1:10,560).
Photocopy of two magazine articles about an archaeology team`s visit to Tiree in 2009
Articles appearing in the magazine British Archaeology (Sept/Oct 2009): (1) by Prof. Mick Aston (Time Team) about his visit to Tiree in summer 2009, and the archaeological sites he explored, including the Ringing Stone, duns and medieval stone crosses. (2) Travel log of the team`s visit by Jon Cannon.
Six postcards of Tiree by Sue Anderson.
Six postcards of Tiree by Sue Anderson: felt-roof house; windsurfing; four views including the broch and ringing stone; Scarinish harbour; the Clansman at the pier; sunrise over Scarinish harbour.
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.
