Township: kilmoluaig

2000.22.1

Black and white photograph of Hugh MacKechnie and Lachlan MacDonald.

L-R: Hugh MacKechnie and Lachlan MacDonald, both of Kilmoluaig and Glasgow, photographed in Glasgow in the 1940s. (Hugh MacKechnie is an uncle of the donor, Margaret Campbell of Kilmoluaig.)

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2000.22.4

Black and white photograph of the MacDonald sisters of Balemartine.

The MacDonald sisters from Balemartine with an unknown friend from Uist, photographed while they were in service in Glasgow in the 1920s. L-R: Unknown, Sarah MacDonald, Mary Jane MacDonald (m.s. MacLean), Chrissie MacDonald (m.s. MacDonald), Neilina MacDonald (m.s. MacCallum). (Mary Jane is the mother of the donor, Margaret Campbell of Kilmoluaig.)

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2000.22.5

Black and white photograph of Donald Campbell and Margaret MacKechnie on their wedding day in 1953.

The wedding of Donald Campbell and Margaret MacKechnie at Heylipol church on 17/7/1953. The piper is Hugh Kennedy of Kilmoluaig and Glasgow. The man to the right with the watch chain is the late George Paterson, father of Mairi Campbell, Corrairigh, and the taller of the two girls is Flora Gunn, Moss.

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2003.3.1

Audio cassette recording of Gordon Donald talking about thatched houses.

Gordon Donald talks about the thatched houses of Tiree, their construction and upkeep, how they withstand storms and differ from ‘black houses’; he lists all the thatched houses in Tiree and their owners and talks about people who can thatch, cutting marram grass, cottars’ houses and their legal rights, and the cost of renovating two thatched houses in Kilmoluaig.