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Marbhrann do dh'Iain Garbh

Fieldworkers
Date February 1957
Track ID 85128
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1957.005.B2

Original Tape ID

SA1957.005

Summary

Elegy for John Garve MacLeod of Raasay, composed by Mary MacLeod (Màiri nighean Alasdair Ruaidh), following his drowning on return from celebrating the baptism of one of the children of the Earl of Seaforth on the Isle of Lewis in 1671.

Item Notes

See:
'Songs of Gaelic Scotland' (Anne Lorne Gillies ed., 2005) p. 151-4

Item Subject/Person

Iain Garbh mac Ghille Chaluim Ratharsaigh

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good