Mingulay, the Glossary
Mingulay (Miughalaigh) is the second largest of the Bishop's Isles in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.[1]
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Aos Sí
Aos sí (English approximation:; older form: aes sídhe) is the Irish name for a supernatural race in Celtic mythology—daoine sìth in Scottish Gaelic—comparable to fairies or elves.
Arctic tern
The Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) is a tern in the family Laridae.
Arnamul
Arnamul (Arnamuil) is a stack off the west coast of Mingulay in the Western Isles, Scotland. Mingulay and Arnamul are Barra Isles and uninhabited islands of the Outer Hebrides.
Atlantic puffin
The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), also known as the common puffin, is a species of seabird in the auk family.
See Mingulay and Atlantic puffin
Barra
Barra (Barraigh or Eilean Bharraigh; Barra) is an island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, and the second southernmost inhabited island there, after the adjacent island of Vatersay to which it is connected by the Vatersay Causeway. Mingulay and Barra are clan MacNeil.
Barra Head
Barra Head, also known as Berneray (Beàrnaraigh; Barra Heid), is the southernmost island of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. Mingulay and Barra Head are Barra Isles, clan MacNeil, former populated places in Scotland, National Trust for Scotland properties and uninhabited islands of the Outer Hebrides.
Barra Isles
The Barra Isles, also known as the Bishop's Isles, are a small archipelago in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Mingulay and Barra Isles are clan MacNeil.
Before Present
Before Present (BP) or "years before present (YBP)" is a time scale used mainly in archaeology, geology, and other scientific disciplines to specify when events occurred relative to the origin of practical radiocarbon dating in the 1950s.
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Bishop of the Isles
The Bishop of the Isles or Bishop of Sodor was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of the Isles (or Sodor), one of Scotland's thirteen medieval bishoprics.
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Black guillemot
The black guillemot or tystie (Cepphus grylle) is a medium-sized seabird of the Alcidae family, native throughout northern Atlantic coasts and eastern North American coasts.
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Black-legged kittiwake
The black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) is a seabird species in the gull family Laridae.
See Mingulay and Black-legged kittiwake
Boulder clay
Boulder clay is an unsorted agglomeration of clastic sediment that is unstratified and structureless and contains gravel of various sizes, shapes, and compositions distributed at random in a fine-grained matrix.
Bracken
Bracken (Pteridium) is a genus of large, coarse ferns in the family Dennstaedtiaceae.
British Isles
The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland), and over six thousand smaller islands.
See Mingulay and British Isles
Castlebay
Castlebay (Bàgh a' Chaisteil) is the main village and a community council area on the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Charlie Fletcher
Charlie Fletcher (born 1960) is a British screenwriter and author.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Clan Macdonald of Clanranald
Clan Macdonald of Clanranald, also known as Clan Ranald (Clann Raghnaill), is a Highland Scottish clan and a branch of Clan Donald, one of the largest Scottish clans.
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Clan MacNeil
Clan MacNeil, also known in Scotland as Clan Niall, is a highland Scottish clan of Irish origin.
Clann Ruaidhrí
Clann Ruaidhrí was a leading medieval clan in the Hebrides and the western seaboard of Scotland.
See Mingulay and Clann Ruaidhrí
Cluny Castle
Cluny Castle was originally built c.1604 as a Z-plan castle replacing either a house or small peel tower.
Common murre
The common murre, also called the common guillemot or foolish guillemot, (Uria aalge) is a large auk.
Common tern
The common tern (Sterna hirundo) is a seabird in the family Laridae.
Congested Districts Board (Scotland)
The Congested Districts Board (Scotland) was set up by the Congested Districts (Scotland) Act, 1897 for the purpose of administering the sums made available by the British Government for the improvement of congested districts in the Highlands and Islands.
See Mingulay and Congested Districts Board (Scotland)
Croft (land)
A croft is a traditional Scottish term for a fenced or enclosed area of land, usually small and arable, and usually, but not always, with a crofter's dwelling thereon.
Crofting
Crofting (Scottish Gaelic: croitearachd) is a form of land tenure and small-scale food production peculiar to the Scottish Highlands, the islands of Scotland, and formerly on the Isle of Man.
Cyperaceae
The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges.
Donald Martin (bishop)
Donald Martin (6 October 1873 – 6 December 1938) was a Scottish Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the Bishop of Argyll and the Isles from 1919 to 1938.
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Each-uisge
The each-uisge (literally "water horse") is a water spirit in Irish and Scottish folklore, spelled as the each-uisce (anglicized as aughisky or ech-ushkya) in Ireland and cabbyl-ushtey on the Isle of Man.
Emily Gordon Cathcart
Lady Emily Eliza Steele Gordon Cathcart (née Pringle) was born in 1845.
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Ericaceae
The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions.
Eryngium maritimum
Eryngium maritimum, the sea holly or sea eryngo, or sea eryngium, is a perennial species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae and native to most European coastlines.
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Essex
Essex is a ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties.
European shag
The European shag or common shag (Gulosus aristotelis) is a species of cormorant.
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Fairy
A fairy (also fay, fae, fey, fair folk, or faerie) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, generally described as anthropomorphic, found in the folklore of multiple European cultures (including Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, and French folklore), a form of spirit, often with metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural qualities.
Ferret
The ferret (Mustela furo) is a small, domesticated species belonging to the family Mustelidae.
Frank Fraser Darling
Sir Frank Fraser Darling FRSE (23 June 1903 – 22 October 1979) was an English ecologist, ornithologist, farmer, conservationist and author, who is strongly associated with the highlands and islands of Scotland.
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Fulling
Fulling, also known as tucking or walking (Scots: waukin, hence often spelled waulking in Scottish English), is a step in woollen clothmaking which involves the cleansing of woven cloth (particularly wool) to eliminate (lanolin) oils, dirt, and other impurities, and to make it shrink by friction and pressure.
Garmoran
Garmoran is an area of western Scotland.
Glacial erratic
A glacial erratic is a glacially deposited rock differing from the type of rock native to the area in which it rests.
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Glasgow
Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.
Glasgow Orpheus Choir
The Glasgow Orpheus Choir was founded in Glasgow, Scotland in 1906 by Hugh S. Roberton.
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Gneiss
Gneiss is a common and widely distributed type of metamorphic rock.
Granite
Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.
Great skua
The great skua (Stercorarius skua), sometimes known by the name bonxie in Britain, is a large seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae.
Grey seal
The grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) is a large seal of the family Phocidae, which are commonly referred to as "true seals" or "earless seals".
Gull
Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari.
Hebrides
The Hebrides (Innse Gall,; Southern isles) are an archipelago off the west coast of the Scottish mainland.
Highland Clearances
The Highland Clearances (Fuadaichean nan Gàidheal, the "eviction of the Gaels") were the evictions of a significant number of tenants in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, mostly in two phases from 1750 to 1860.
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Highland Potato Famine
The Highland Potato Famine (Gaiseadh a' bhuntàta) was a period of 19th-century Highland and Scottish history (1846 to roughly 1856) over which the agricultural communities of the Hebrides and the western Scottish Highlands (Gàidhealtachd) saw their potato crop (upon which they had become over-reliant) repeatedly devastated by potato blight.
See Mingulay and Highland Potato Famine
Hirta
Hirta (Hiort) is the largest island in the St Kilda archipelago, on the western edge of Scotland. Mingulay and Hirta are former populated places in Scotland and uninhabited islands of the Outer Hebrides.
Hugh S. Roberton
Sir Hugh Stevenson Roberton (23 February 18747 October 1952) was a Scottish composer and, as founder of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir, one of Britain's leading choral-masters in the first half of the 20th century.
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Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.
Islet
An islet is a very small, often unnamed island.
Jacobite rising of 1745
The Jacobite rising of 1745 was an attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for his father, James Francis Edward Stuart. It took place during the War of the Austrian Succession, when the bulk of the British Army was fighting in mainland Europe, and proved to be the last in a series of revolts that began in March 1689, with major outbreaks in 1715 and 1719.
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James VI and I
James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.
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John Gordon (soldier)
John Gordon (1776 – 16 July 1858) was a Scottish soldier and Tory politician.
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Ken MacLeod
Kenneth Macrae MacLeod (born 2 August 1954) is a Scottish science fiction writer.
Kingdom of the Isles
The Kingdom of the Isles was a Norse-Gaelic kingdom comprising the Isle of Man, the Hebrides and the islands of the Clyde from the 9th to the 13th centuries AD.
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Laird
Laird is a designation applies to an owner of a large, long-established Scottish estate.
List of islands of Scotland
This is a list of islands of Scotland, the mainland of which is part of the island of Great Britain.
See Mingulay and List of islands of Scotland
Lochaber
Lochaber (Loch Abar) is a name applied to a part of the Scottish Highlands.
Lord of the Isles
Lord of the Isles or King of the Isles (Triath nan Eilean or Rìgh Innse Gall; Dominus Insularum) is a title of nobility in the Baronage of Scotland with historical roots that go back beyond the Kingdom of Scotland.
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Lysimachia maritima
Lysimachia maritima is a plant species belonging to the family Primulaceae.
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Malcolm III of Scotland
Malcolm III (label; Maol Chaluim mac Dhonnchaidh; c. 1031–13 November 1093) was King of Alba from 1058 to 1093.
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Manx shearwater
The Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae.
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Martin Martin
Martin Martin (Scottish Gaelic: Màrtainn MacGilleMhàrtainn) (-9 October 1718) was a Scottish writer best known for his work A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland (1703; second edition 1716).
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Midden
A midden is an old dump for domestic waste.
Mingulay Boat Song
The "Mingulay Boat Song" is a song written by Sir Hugh S. Roberton (1874–1952) in the 1930s.
See Mingulay and Mingulay Boat Song
Montana
Montana is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
National Trust for Scotland
The National Trust for Scotland (Urras Nàiseanta na h-Alba) is a Scottish conservation organisation.
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Neil Munro (writer)
Neil Munro (3 June 1863 – 22 December 1930)Brian Osborne and Ronald Armstrong, Introduction to "Para Handy: The Complete Edition" was a Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author and literary critic.
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North Rona
Rona (Rònaigh) is an uninhabited Scottish island in the North Atlantic. Mingulay and North Rona are former populated places in Scotland and uninhabited islands of the Outer Hebrides.
Northern fulmar
The northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis), fulmar, or Arctic fulmar is a highly abundant seabird found primarily in subarctic regions of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.
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Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is a province of Canada, located on its east coast.
Old Norse
Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages.
Outer Hebrides
The Outer Hebrides or Western Isles (na h-Eileanan Siar, na h-Eileanan an Iar or label; Waster Isles), sometimes known as the Long Isle or Long Island (an t-Eilean Fada), is an island chain off the west coast of mainland Scotland.
See Mingulay and Outer Hebrides
Pabbay, Barra Isles
Pabbay (Pabaigh) is one of the Barra Isles at the southern tip of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Mingulay and Pabbay, Barra Isles are Barra Isles, former populated places in Scotland, National Trust for Scotland properties and uninhabited islands of the Outer Hebrides.
See Mingulay and Pabbay, Barra Isles
Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories.
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Peat
Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter.
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
Poaceae
Poaceae, also called Gramineae, is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses.
Populus
Populus is a genus of 25–30 species of deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere.
Rabbit
Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also includes the hares), which is in the order Lagomorpha (which also includes pikas).
Razorbill
The razorbill, razor-billed auk, or lesser auk (Alca torda) is a North Atlantic colonial seabird and the only extant member of the genus Alca of the family Alcidae, the auks.
Richard Thompson (musician)
Richard Thompson (born 3 April 1949) is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (– 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.
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Sandray
Sandray (Sanndraigh) is one of the Barra Isles in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Mingulay and Sandray are Barra Isles and uninhabited islands of the Outer Hebrides.
Science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Scots language
ScotsThe endonym for Scots is Scots.
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Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic (endonym: Gàidhlig), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland.
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Scottish Reformation
The Scottish Reformation was the process whereby Scotland broke away from the Catholic Church, and established the Protestant Church of Scotland.
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Sea level rise
Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rise was, with an increase of per year since the 1970s.
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Seabird
Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment.
Seaweed
Seaweed, or macroalgae, refers to thousands of species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae.
Sheep
Sheep (sheep) or domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are a domesticated, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.
Siol Gorrie
Siol Gorrie (Siolach Ghoirridh) is a Scottish Clan and a branch of Clan Donald.
Siol Murdoch
The Siol Murdoch were an ancient Scottish family and a sept of the Clan Donald or MacDonald, a Scottish clan of the Scottish Highlands.
Site of Special Scientific Interest
A site of special scientific interest (SSSI) in Great Britain, or an area of special scientific interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland, is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man.
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South Uist
South Uist (Uibhist a Deas,; Sooth Uist) is the second-largest island of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland.
Sphagnum
Sphagnum is a genus of approximately 380 accepted species of mosses, commonly known as sphagnum moss, also bog moss and quacker moss (although that term is also sometimes used for peat).
St Kilda, Scotland
St Kilda (Hiort) is a remote archipelago situated west-northwest of North Uist in the North Atlantic Ocean. Mingulay and st Kilda, Scotland are former populated places in Scotland, National Trust for Scotland properties, sites of Special Scientific Interest in Western Isles South and uninhabited islands of the Outer Hebrides.
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Stack (geology)
A stack or sea stack is a geological landform consisting of a steep and often vertical column or columns of rock in the sea near a coast, formed by wave erosion.
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Storm petrel
Storm petrel may refer to one of two bird families, both in the order Procellariiformes, once treated as the same family.
The Idlers
The Idlers of the United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) are an all-male collegiate a cappella ensemble specializing in the performance of sea shanties and patriotic music.
The Minch
The Minch (A' Mhaoil) is a strait in north-west Scotland that separates the mainland from Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides.
Treaty of Perth
The Treaty of Perth, signed 2 July 1266, ended military conflict between Magnus VI of Norway and Alexander III of Scotland over possession of the Hebrides and the Isle of Man.
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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.
Typhus
Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus, and murine typhus.
Uist
Uist is a group of six islands that are part of the Outer Hebridean Archipelago, which is part of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
Valladolid
Valladolid is a municipality in Spain and the primary seat of government and de facto capital of the autonomous community of Castile and León.
Vatersay
The island of Vatersay (Bhatarsaigh) is the southernmost and westernmost inhabited island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, and the settlement of Caolas on the north coast of the island is the westernmost permanently inhabited place in Scotland. Mingulay and Vatersay are Barra Isles and clan MacNeil.
Vikings
Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.
W. H. Murray
William Hutchison Murray, (18 March 1913 – 19 March 1996) was a Scottish mountaineer and writer, one of a group of active mountain climbers, mainly from Clydeside, before and just after World War II.
Work song
A work song is a piece of music closely connected to a form of work, either one sung while conducting a task (usually to coordinate timing) or one linked to a task that may be a connected narrative, description, or protest song.
See also
Barra Isles
- Arnamul
- Barra Head
- Barra Isles
- Biruaslum
- Flodday near Vatersay
- Lingeigh
- Mingulay
- Muldoanich
- Pabbay, Barra Isles
- Sandray
- Vatersay
Clan MacNeil
- Barra
- Barra Head
- Barra Isles
- Castle Sween
- Clan MacNeil
- Colonsay
- Duncan McNeill, 1st Baron Colonsay
- Flodday near Vatersay
- Gigha
- Hector Macneill
- Ian Roderick Macneil
- Kisimul Castle
- MacNeal
- MacNeil
- MacNeill
- MacNeille
- McNeill (surname)
- Mingulay
- Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun
- Torquil MacNeill
- Vatersay
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Western Isles South
- List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Western Isles South
- Loch Druidibeg
- Mingulay
- Monach Islands
- Rockall
- St Kilda, Scotland
- Vallay
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingulay
Also known as Abandonment of Mingulay.
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