'S An Tèid Thu A-null Leam a Rùin
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
31 July 1953
Track ID
5458
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1953.121.6
Original Tape ID
Summary
A local song about a new house which the bard was soon to move into.
Composed by Gilleasbaig MacNeil, the Colonsay bard who died in 1924 aged about 80. He had been reluctant to leave his old home, hence the song. He had been a lobster fisherman in the summer and a rabbit trapper in the winter. He did not marry but he still [1953] has relatives in Colonsay. He was the last bard.
Item Notes
4 verses. Transcribed in the School of Scottish Studies.
Item Subject/Person
MacNeil, Gilleasbaig
Item Location
County - Argyllshire
Parish - Colonsay and Oronsay
Island - Colonsay
Language
Gaelic
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good