Till an Crodh Laochain
Contributors
Date
April 1951
Track ID
35117
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
CW0163B.879
Original Tape ID
Summary
This pibroch song was often used as a milking song. It asks the hero to return the cattle. He will get a beautiful wife who is playful and loving.
Item Notes
The song can be found in Fr. Allan's Notebook no. V, 156.
The song was said to have been composed on the night when the young Glengarry was going to marry the MacIntosh chief's daughter. Cattle thieves came to steal the cattle belong to the MacIntosh chief. Young Glengarry distinguished himself by helping to bring them back.
See:
'Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist' (M. F. Shaw ed., 1955) p. 164 (Song 50)
Recording Location
County - Inverness-shire
Parish - Small Isles
Island - Canna
Language
Gaelic
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Wire
Audio Quality
Good