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Na solais a bha aig daoine a-muigh agus a-staigh.

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1959.27.A3

Original Tape ID

SA1959.027

Summary

Various lights used indoors and out of doors.

The contributor describes the various lights used out of doors on a dark night: a burning peat held with tongs or a candle inside a broken bottle. Indoors there was the crùisgean [cruse], burning whale, seal or cod liver oil, and candles made from fat.

Recording Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - Arisaig and Moidart

Village/Place - Smirasary

Item Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - Arisaig and Moidart

Language

English, Gaelic

Genre

Information

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Fair