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Àirighean.

Date c. 1959
Track ID 41169
Part 1
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Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1960.24.B6

Original Tape ID

SA1960.024

Summary

Sheilings.

Sheilings were built near streams. The men built them every year before the young girls and older women went out to them to look after the stock. They made butter and cheese at the sheiling. Henhouses were also built in the summer, some distance away from houses. They stopped going to the sheilings when fences were built, about fifty years ago [1900s]. Discussion about sheiling locations which can still [1960] be clearly seen.

Recording Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - South Uist

Island - South Uist

Item Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - South Uist

Island - South Uist

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Information

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good