Colour postcard of the thatched cottage at Moss.
Original postcard of the thatched cottage in Moss.
2006.154.2
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Township: moss
2000.61.25
CD Pròiseact Thiriodh CD-SA1974-77.
Hector Kennedy of Kilkenneth talks about the first electric torch on the island, weather forecasting, using burning peat as a torch, Donald Kennedy – Rìgh na Mòintich, Land Leagues, Rev. MacNiven, the occupations of his family, crofting, kelp, food, the shops, Anna Dhuireach and describes two farmers.
2000.61.50
Mini-disk SA1974/77.
Hector Kennedy of Kilkenneth talks about the first electric torch on the island, weather forecasting, using burning peat as a torch, Donald Kennedy – Rìgh na Mòintich, Land Leagues, Rev. MacNiven, the occupations of his family, crofting, kelp, food, the shops, Anna Dhuireach and describes two farmers.
2000.16.1
Audio cassette recording of Donneil Kennedy talking to Dr John Holliday in January 2000.
Donneil Kennedy talks to Dr John Holliday in January 2000 about his earliest memories in wartime Glasgow, his summer holidays in Moss and Crossapol with stories of his uncles Sandy and John, stories of the ‘Houf’ in Glasgow and Ewen McColl’s Critics group in London, the story of the septic tank on his return to Tiree, life as a building surveyor in Nigeria and finishes with two more childhood stories from Tiree. (Continued on AC196)
2000.16.2
Audio cassette recording of Donneil Kennedy talking to Dr John Holliday in January 2000.
Donneil Kennedy talks to Dr John Holliday in January 2000 about his earliest memories in wartime Glasgow, his summer holidays in Moss and Crossapol with stories of his uncles Sandy and John, stories of the ‘Houf’ in Glasgow and Ewen McColl’s Critics group in London, the story of the septic tank on his return to Tiree, life as a building surveyor in Nigeria and finishes with two more childhood stories from Tiree.
2001.56.5
Black and white photograph of Donneil Kennedy and Neil MacKinnon in Moss in the late 1940s early 1950s.
Donneil Kennedy and Neil MacKinnon with Sandy Kennedy`s horse in Moss in the late 1940s early 1950s.
2001.75.11
Photocopied letter to Lord Archibald Campbell dated 22/9/1899 from Hugh MacDiarmid (Bundle 924).
Letter to Lord Archibald Campbell dated 22/9/1899 from Hugh MacDiarmid about a sword found by drainers several feet under the surface of a drained loch, Loch an Duin, in Moss, with attached photograph (poor).
2004.16.1
Copy of prize label awarded to Donald Kennedy, Moss at the 1927 Mod.
Label on inside cover of book `Songs and Hymns of the Gael` awarded to Donald Kennedy of Moss as 1st prize for translation of Gaelic into English at the 1927 Mod.
2000.120.1
Audio cassette recording of Hector MacKinnon, Kilkenneth talking to Maggie Campbell in May 2000.
Hector MacKinnon of Kilkenneth talks to Maggie Campbell in May 2000 about the people who used to live in Kilkenneth, their relations and employment, how the roads used to be and the large numbers of horses, the self-sufficiency of people in his young days, Land Leagues, wells, leaving Kilkenneth aged 18, the emigration to Canada after the Glassary closed, the fall in the population of Moss, the Tiree bards and the size of families.Tha Eachann Mhic Fhiongain a Cille Choinneach a’ bruidhinn ri Magaidh Chaimbeul anns a’ Mhàigh 2000 mu na daoine a b’ àbhaist a bhi fuireach ann an Cille Choinneach, an càirdean agus an dreuchd aca, staid na rathaidean o chionn fhada agus an àireamh mhòr eich a bh’ ann, cho fèin-bhith ’s bha daoine ann an làithean òige, ‘Land Leagues’, tobraichean, a’ fàgail Cille Choinneach mar a bha e ochd bliadhna deug a dh’ aois, daoine fàgail an dùthaich a’ dol gu Canada an dèidh do ’n Glasairidh dùnadh, cho beag de dhaoine a th’ anns a’ Mhòinteach, na bàird Thirisdich agus meud na teaghlaichean.
1999.224.1
Audio cassette recording of Neil MacArthur of Moss talking to Maggie Campbell in October 1999.
Neil MacArthur (Niall Sheumais Alasdair) of Moss talks to Maggie Campbell in October 1999 about his schooling at Heylipol and Cornaig, working on the croft with his uncle, the people who used to live in Moss and the ruins that are left, the many cartwrights who used work on the island, the shops, illicit whiskey stills, the wells in Moss, cutting turf to burn instead of peat, singers and songs, people from Mull, the roads, the new church at Heylipol built in 1903-4 and a bad storm in the 1930s on the night of a wedding.