Tag Archives: ross of mull

2005.5.5

Booklet `A Guide to Walks in the District of Ardfenaig`.

An illustrated guide to walks around Ardfenaig and Camas, part of the `Discover the Ross..` series. Includes references to Skerryvore Lighthouse and Hynish on Tiree.

2005.5.7

Booklet `A Guide to Walks in the District of Creich`.

An illustrated guide to walks around Torr Mor Quarry, Fionnphort, Braighcreich and Kintra, part of the `Discover the Ross..` series. Includes references to Tiree page 8.

2000.61.22

CD Pròiseact Thiriodh CD-SA1968-37.

Donald Sinclair (Dòmhnall Chaluim Bhàin) of Balephuil sings a lament, a lullaby and a song about a wedding, talks about his great-grandfather, ghosts, fairies and fairy dogs, sings a sailor’s song, the weather, fishing grounds, tells a fairy story, talks about Tiree peat bogs in the Ross, strange happenings, the Balemartine area, sings a Gaelic songs, tells a story about William Ross’s broken heart and sings a love song.

2000.61.54

Mini-disk SA1968/37.

Donald Sinclair (Dòmhnall Chaluim Bhàin) of Balephuil sings a lament, a lullaby and a song about a wedding, talks about his great-grandfather, ghosts, fairies and fairy dogs, sings a sailor’s song, the weather, fishing grounds, tells a fairy story, talks about Tiree peat bogs in the Ross, strange happenings, the Balemartine area, sings a Gaelic songs, tells a story about William Ross’s broken heart and sings a love song.

2000.33.1

Ring binder titles `A Study Tour of the Ross of Mull`.

Account of visit to Ross of Mull in 1999 by committee members of An Iodhlann, the cattle trade from Tiree to Mull by Maggie Campbell, Tiree and Bunessan connections by Angus MacLean, Tyree peat in the Ross of Mull by Mary MacLean and a poem `Gael force` by Donneil Kennedy.

2004.68.1

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

2001.132.1

Booklet `The Tiree Crofters` Struggle` written by Ailig MacArthur in July 1986.

Account of the Tiree crofters` struggle for land reform written by Ailig MacArthur of Heylipol in 1986, the centenary year of the Crofters Act.

Click here to view 2001.132.1