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Beathaichean air Haisgeir.

Date 1968
Track ID 69053
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1968.143.B4-B6

Original Tape ID

SA1968.143

Summary

Stock kept in Haisgeir.

The contributor tells about the stock they kept on the crofts in Haisgeir and the souming for each croft. They sometimes milked the sheep. Bulls were brought from Balranald.

Mention of how his grandfather caught a wild bull and how he felled a horse on board a boat in bad weather.

Recording Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - North Uist

Island - North Uist

Item Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - North Uist

Island - Heisker (Monach Islands)

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Information

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good