Article in Gaelic `Taibhsearachd na Ruighe / Seer of the Reef` about Iain MacAilein’s premonitions. Written by Gordon Donald of Vaul and published in the Ossian magazine in 1982. See page 41.
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2010.53.2
Ordnance Survey map sheet LXV
Map of the eastern areas of Tiree from Baugh in the south to the Ringing Stone in the north, at a scale of 6 inches to the mile (1:10,560).
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Collection of 13 postcards of historical views of Tiree
13 postcards bearing black & white photographs of historical views of Tiree collected by Alasdair Sinclair, Brock, including Brock, Vaul bay, Scarinish, Balephuil, Crossapol, Balemartine, Cornaigmore School and Hynish. Several have stamps (1911, 1952, 1957, 1961). The photographs have been accessioned separately.
2010.53.3
Ordnance Survey map sheet LXV.2
Map of the Salum and Vaul area at a scale of 25 inches to the mile (1:2,500).
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Assorted family trees belonging to Alasdair Sinclair, Brock (1923-2009).
Eight handwritten family trees made by Alasdair Sinclair, Brock, in 1998, regarding his family and ancestors, listed as descendents of: Archibald MacKinnon `Gilleasbuig Mor` (b.1767); Fingon MacKinnon, Salum, (1795-1859); Archibald MacKinnon `Gilleasbuig Og`, Ruaig, (b. 1785); Charles MacKinnon (1838-1926); Donald MacKinnon, Ruaig (1796-1870); Donald MacIntyre, Kirkapol (1737-1800).
2010.44.1
Tiree Memories Calendar 2011 by Alec Walker
“Tiree Memories” calendar 2011, by Alec Walker, showing black and white photographs of old Tiree. Photos: Mary Stewart in Scarinish Harbour, Balephetrish 1950s, Upper Vaul, Ruaig, Kilkenneth chapel, Scarinish from the air, Caoles, Claymore ferry, Hillcrest, Kilkenneth, Balephuil.
2010.29.3
Photograph of men tarring the road outside Donald Brown`s house at Vaul ca 1960
Black and white photograph of Neil Johnston, Heanish, and Archie MacArthur, Balinoe (closest to house), tarring the road outside Donald Brown`s house at Vaul around 1960.
2010.25.2
Photograph of Lachlan MacKinnon, Hillcrest, and friends circa 1930
Black & white photograph of Lachlan MacKinnon, Hillcrest, Balephetrish, as a boy with five friends sailing a model ship on a lochan between Hillcrest and Vaul around 1930. Lachie is second from the right.
2010.16.2
Archive film from 1963 of (1) The Wheelhouse at Drimore, South Uist, (2) Dun Mor Vaul, Tiree
DVD film from the Scottish Screen Archive about the Wheelhouse at Drimore on South Uist and Dun Mor Vaul on Tiree. Filmed in 1963, colour, silent. Made by the Hunterian Museum, the films feature (1) two men (presumably archaeologists) displaying photographs, line drawings, text, and pottery and bone fragments from the wheelhouse excavation, along with a model of the excavated site (the film does not contain footage of the actual wheelhouse), (2) footage of the excavation of the broch at Vaul by a team from the University of Glasgow, plus diagrams and pottery fragments.
2010.7.1
MacKinnon (Vaul) family tree 1708-2009
Photocopy of handwritten family tree of Archie Johnstone (Kent) whose grandmother was Mary Flora MacKinnon of Vaul. Goes back 6 generations to Archibald MacKinnon & Anna McQuarry of Isle of Muck (b1710) and Hector MacKinnon & Christina MacLean of Isle of Rhum (b1708).
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