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Àireamh Sluagh Ghriomasaigh

Date July 1975
Track ID 56765
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1975.108.A7

Original Tape ID

SA1975.108

Summary

The Grimsay Population

The contributor will be 86 next birthday. There were over three hundred people in Grimsay when he was young. There were large families then. There are about two hundred people staying there now. There are no young people. The contributor remembers when there were 80 pupils in the school. There are seven pupils at present in Grimsay School and ten in Kallin School [1975].

Item Subject/Person

Moireasdan, Pàdruig

Item Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - North Uist

Island - Grimsay

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Information

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good