Photograph of Cnoc Bhiosta/Kilmoluaig House in 1992
Black & white photograph of the exterior of Cnoc Bhiosta/Kilmoluaig House in 1992, with Netta Gunn and Eilidh at the door.
2012.15.3
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2012.15.4
Photograph of brothers Iain and Hugh MacKinnon, Kilmoluaig in 1994
Colour photograph of brothers Iain and Hugh MacKinnon in Cnoc Bhiosta/Kilmoluaig House in 1994. Iain and Hugh were sons of Calum MacKinnon (Chalium Iain Bhan).
2012.15.5
Photograph of Iain MacKinnon, Kilmoluaig, holding a framed photograph of himself ploughing with horses
Colour photograph of Iain MacKinnon (Iain Chaluim Iain Bhan) holding a framed colour photograph outside his house `Cnoc Bhiosta`/Kilmoluaig House in the 1990s. The photograph is of himself as a younger man (ca. 1970) with his two-horse plough in a field nearby. It would take him three days to plough the field.
2012.15.6
Photograph of Iain MacKinnon, Kilmoluaig, with a horse-drawn plough ca. 1970
Colour photograph taken in 2011 of a close up of a framed photograph belonging to Iain MacKinnon (Iain Chaluim Iain Bhan) of Cnoc Bhiosta/Kilmoluaig House. The photograph shows Iain plouging with his two-horse plough at Kilmoluaig around 1970. It would take three days to complete.
2012.15.7
Photograph of Cnoc Bhiosta, Kilmoluaig after re-thatching in 2006
Colour photograph of `Cnoc Bhiosta`/Kilmoluaig House after it was re-thatched in 2005/2006. By that time ownership had passed from the family of Iain MacKinnon (Iain Chaluim Iain Bhan) to Ian Aitkens, who restored it.
2011.106.1
Collection of documents, histories, drawings and photographs relating to the Galbraith/MacDonald family of Balevullin and Kilmoluaig
Copies of a collection of official documents, family tree, history, hand-drawings and photographs relating to the Galbraith family of Balevullin, and the MacDonald family of Kilmoluaig, 1821-2009. James Galbraith (1821-1903) was born in Gigha, and came to Tiree from Rothiemurchus, near Aviemore, with his wife and children in 1874 to take up the position of School Master of the Parochial School at Balevullin. The factor relocated the MacLeod family to Kilmoluaig to make way for him. His third daughter Janet Wotherspoon Galbraith (b. 1872) married Donald MacDonald of Kilmoluaig in 1905. She drowned at Loch Bhasapol aged 64. Items include: a short biography of Sarah Grant Galbraith m.Donald (1886-1917) by Erica McKellar, extracts of census/birth/marriage/death records for Sarah Galbraith (1868-), John MacDonald, Cornaigmore (1869-), Mary Galbraith, Balevullin (1869-), Donald MacDonald, Kilmoluaig (1865-), Janet Galbraith, Balevullin (1874-), Angus MacDonald, Kilmoluaig (1909-), Jessie Wotherspoon MacDonald, Balevullin (1898), Mary MacDonald, Heylipol (1882-), Mary Flora MacDonald, Kilmoluaig (1910-1969), James Galbraith MacDonald, Balevullin (1908-). Report from the Sheriff Court, Oban, and correspondence between Argyll Estate, Sarah Galbraith and her solicitors regarding the legal title to the Galbraith croft at Balevullin, 1903-1913. Rental receipts for the croft at Balevullin 1907-1909, family tree for the descendants of Janet Wotherspoon & James Galbraith, hand-drawings of headstones at Soroby Cemetry and the location of the wreck of the `Vivo` by James Galbraith, transcript of the headstone for Hector, Sarah and Malcolm Smith 1835-1900, telegraph message regarding the death of James Galbraith`s `Uncle Archie` 1907. Family tree and notes for the Wotherspoon family genealogy. Information for 19 photographs.
2011.106.2
Photograph of James Galbraith (1821-1903), Balevullin, his wife and two grandchildren, ca 1890.
Black & white photograph of James Galbraith, Balevullin, Head of the Parochial School at Balevullin from 1874, his wife Janet (Wotherspoon) Galbraith and two of their Donald grandchildren, at the croft house at Balevullin around 1890. James Galbraith (1821-1903) was born in Gigha, and came to Tiree from Rothiemurchus, near Aviemore, with his wife and children in 1874 to take up the position of School Master of the Parochial School at Balevullin. The Duke of Argyll displaced the MacLeod family off their croft to Kilmoluaig to make way for them. After James` death the family`s title to the croft at Balevullin was challenged by the Duke, despite one of James` daughters, Sarah (now living in Glasgow), continuing to pay the rent and her two sisters still living there. One sister, Mary Galbraith, married John MacDonald of Cornaigmore in 1907 and they continued to run the croft. However, after 10 years of pursuit, the Duke took the matter to Court and the croft was given up around 1913.
2011.106.5
Photograph of members of the Galbriath family, Balevullin, ca. 1890
Black & white photograph of (probably) L-R: Janet Galbraith, Balevullin, her husband Donald MacDonald, Kilmoluaig, and her sister Mary Galbraith in around 1890. Janet and Mary were daughters of James Galbraith (1821-1903) who was born in Gigha, and came to Tiree from Rothiemurchus, near Aviemore, with his wife and children in 1874 to take up the position of School Master of the Parochial School at Balevullin. He was given the croft at Balevullin as part of his payment. Mary married John MacDonald of Cornaigmore in 1907, and continued to run the croft at Balevullin until the Duke of Argyll reclaimed it in 1903.
2011.94.3
Paper about iron ore deposits on Tiree, 1949
Photocopy of a paper about an investigation of magnetite (iron ore) deposits in Tiree particularly one that runs from Loch a` Phuill to Loch Bhasapol.
2011.83.3
Information about the sword bayonet found in thatch at Kilmoluaig in 2005
Printed email from Steve Thomson to Dr John Holliday dated 6/10/11 with further information about the sword bayonet found in the thatch of `Cnoc Bhiosta` at Kilmoluaig by the Atkins in 2005. Type of Yataghan bayonet modelled on a Turkish sword shape and manufactured in 1873 at Chatellerault Arsenal, near Poitier, France.