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Cumha Iain Ghairbh

Date 1963
Track ID 73109
Part 1

Track Information

Original Tape ID

MOD 1963 GR0010(2) REEL 2

Summary

In this song the bard is lamenting the death by drowning of John MacLeod.

Item Notes

Catherine MacArthur took part in the James Grant Memorial Ladies' competition at the National Mod in Perth in 1963. This lament was composed by Patrick Mor MacCrimmon, and mourns the death of Great John MacLeod, seventeenth Chief of Siol Thorquil, and sixth of Raasay. He was drowned off the North Coast of the Isle of Skye, his galley and all on board being lost near the spot where, a century before, another of his family, Torquil Òg, was drowned with 200 of his Lewismen.

Recording Location

County - Perthshire

Parish - Perth

Village/Place - Perth

Item Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - Portree

Island - Raasay

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

BBC

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good