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Place names of Sleat, Skye. A collection of place names in the vicinity of Camuscross, Sleat. These include the following: Barabhaig; Rubha an Tuirc; Rubha na Ceàrdaich; Port Iain Robasdain; Sgeir...

A song about a well-known local inn in Skye.

A song composed by the contributor about bad weather.

A humorous and satirical song.

How the contributor composes songs. The contributor explains how he creates songs. He does not keep any livestock now and when he is not busy he goes for a walk around his home. Words arrive and h...

Some historical information. The contributor was born in 1887 in the same house as he is in now [1973]. It was a white house; one of the first ones. His father married in 1884 and built the house....

How MacLeod's fool outwitted the robber. In the 16th century, MacLeod, the chief of Dunvegan, kept a fool as a servant. He had money to be collected from Inverness and the fool volunteered to get ...

How a Skye man met with a Gaelic-speaking skipper coming back from Australia. The contributor had been sailing on the Australian coast and was working his way home on a four-masted, full-rigged sh...

Some information on the houses of earlier times. The hearth would have stones around it. There was a house with the fire in the middle of the floor. If there was a big gathering, people would shif...