Identifier Number NS023484
Title Cumha Iain Ghairbh Mhic Ghille-Chaluim Rarsaidh
Alternative Title
Air
First Line Chorus Hi-il ò ho bha hò
First Line Verse ’S mi na m’ shuidh’ air an fhaodhlainn
Classifications Elegy , Lament
Subjects John Garbh MacLeod of Raasay
Structure Four line verse / Four line chorus
Place Of Origin Scotland
Composer First Name
Composer Last Name
Composer Patronymic
Composer Dates
Composer Gender Female
Community Raasay
County
Era Of Poetry c. 1671
Original Format Publication
Singer
Singer Location
Date Recorded
Collector
Collection Title
Collection Location
Collection Number Vol. 6. No. 6
Publication Title Mac-Talla
Editor Jonathan G. MacKinnon
Publisher Jonathan G. MacKinnon
Publication Date 6 August 1897
Page Number 8
Online Access https://dasg.ac.uk/LIL/mactalla/6/6/8
Notes 1 Somg traditionally contributed to the sister of John Garbh MacLeod of Raasay.
Notes 2 See Anne Lorne Gillies, Songs of Gaelic Scotland, (Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 2010), 18-21.
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