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Till an Crodh Laochain

Track Information

Original Track ID

CW0163B.879

Original Tape ID

CW0163B

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

Island - Canna

Parish - Small Isles

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

Canna

Source Type

Wire

Audio Quality

Good