Tobar an Dualchais - Kist O Riches

Title - Naidheachd ghoirid mu Aonghas MacFhionnlaigh, sgeulaiche agu...
Contributors - Unknown (male); John Campbell
Reporters - Calum Iain Maclean
Item Person - MacFhionnlagh, Aonghas

Summary - Anecdotes about Angus MacInnes, a storyteller and piper from Uist.

Angus MacInnes [sic] and the contributor's grandparents, who were named MacRae, were once on their way to a wedding. Angus was piping for the dancing and the night was late before they left. When Angus went to get his cap, it could not be found. The contributors grandfather closed the door and would not let anyone leave until it was found. They had killed a sheep for the wedding meal, and they were competing to see who was strongest among them by trying to break its thigh bone. Angus was the only man strong enough to break it in half. He was not a tall man, but he was very strong. He was an old man when he died.

Angus MacInnes died more than fifty years previously, before the Boer War.

Track Duration (h:m:s) - 00:04:41
Date Recorded - 1959.12.10
Language - Gaelic
Genre - Story
Collection - School of Scottish Studies

Track ID - 38551
Original Tape ID - SA1960.007
Original Track ID - SA1960.7.B2
Audio Quality - Good
Audio Format - R2R



Recording Location:
  County - Inverness-shire
  Parish - South Uist
  Island - South Uist


Item Location:
  County - Inverness-shire
  Parish - South Uist
  Island - South Uist

Item Notes - Source notes and contributor had given English name MacInnes rather than MacInlay.

Permanent Link - http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/fullrecord/38551/1


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