Colour photograph of a Tiree regatta.
John MacKinnon (Iain Aonghais) of Kilmoluaig in the yellow life jacket coming into Scarinish harbour after competing in a Tiree regatta in the 1990s.
2000.192.6
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1998.177.1
Black and white photograph of sheep-shearers at Kilmoluaig around 1960.
Sheep-shearing at Kilmoluaig around 1960. L-R: Lachie MacLean, Kilmoluaig; (back) Murdoch Cameron, Balevullin; Maggie Campbell nee MacKechnie, Kilmoluaig; Murdoch MacLean, Kilmoluaig; Alick MacKechnie, Blackcroft, Kilmoluaig.
1999.216.3
Audio cassette recording of John MacKinnon of Kilmoluaig talking to Maggie Campbell in October 1999.
John MacKinnon (Iain Chaluim) talks to Maggie Campbell in October 1999 about the people and places in and around Kilmoluaig, the use of lichen to dye cloth red, various ruins in the area around Loch Bhasapol where there used to be salmon and trout, the son of Sir Donald MacLean who spied for Russia, how the Green got its name, the once frequent sand drifts, the water drawn from wells, working crofts with horses, planting oats, turnips and potatoes, taking grain to the mill at Cornaig and the scarcity of people where they were once so plentiful. Tha Iain Chaluim a’ bruidhinn ri Magaidh Chaimbeul anns an Dàmhair 1999 mu na daoine agus àiteachan ann agus mun cuairt Cill Moluaig, feum crotail airson aodach a dhath gu dearg, diofrach thobhtaichean mun cuairt Loch Bhasapol far am b’ àbhaist bradan agus bric a bhi, mac fear-uasal Dhòmhnall ’IcIllEathain a bha na fhear-brathaidh airson an Ruis, mar a fhuair ‘An Green’ ainm, na cathaidhean gainmhaiche a b’ àbhaist a bhi ann, uisge air a tharraing a tobraichean, ag obair air na croitean le eich, a’ cur coirce, neipean agus buntàta, a’ toirt sìol don mhuilinn ann an Còrnaig agus cion nan daoine far an robh iad uaireigin gu math lìonmhor.
1998.103.1
Black and white photograph of Donald MacKechnie, Kilmoluaig in the late 1950s.
Donald MacKechnie (Maggie Campbell`s father) with a horse and cart behind the old steadings, Kilmoluaig around 1958-1960.
1998.103.2
Black and white photograph of Donald MacKechnie, Kilmoluaig in 1960.
Donald MacKechnie (Maggie Campbell`s father) at Lochside, Kilmoluaig in 1960.
1998.103.3
Black and white photograph of harvesting in Kilmoluaig in the 1920s.
Harvesting in Kilmoluaig in the 1920s. L-R: Maggie Campbell`s uncle Donald Archie; uncle Alick; Neil MacDonald, Kilmoluaig (Murdoch`s father); Maggie`s father Donald MacKechnie; John Lamont, Balevullin; great-aunt Bella MacLean, Kilmoluaig; aunt Marion and grandfather Alexander MacKechnie.
1998.103.5
Black and white photograph of Donald MacKechnie and Archie and John MacDonald around 1950.
Greenbank, Kilmoluaig around 1950. L-R: Donald MacKechnie of Kilmoluaig, Archie MacDonald of Greenbank and his son John.
1998.103.6
Black and white photograph of John MacDonald with his nephew and sister around 1950.
Greenbank, Kilmoluaig around 1960. L-R: John MacDonald, his nephew Archie (1937-1977; who became a doctor) and John`s sister Mary.
1998.103.10
Black and white photograph of the MacKechnie family of Kilmoluaig.
L-R: (back row) Donald MacKechnie and his father Alex, (front row) Donald`s sisters Marion and Joan, and Florence Munn who brought up the MacKechnie family when their mother Maggie died aged 32.
1998.103.17
Black and white photograph of Donald MacKechnie and Alasdair MacDonald of Kilmoluaig in 1953.
Donald MacKechnie and Alasdair MacDonald of Kilmoluaig with horses Rosie and Polly in 1953.
