| 1. Land division and allocation |
| (a) Specific portions or allotments into which arable land is divided |
| iomaire | rig. |
| clasidh | hollow between rigs. |
| clar | a division of land about 3 rigs in width used when farm was held separately between two tenants. |
| Rotation of crop |
| shiol feer (f) | lea corn. |
| groond-buntata | potato land. |
| shiol fearan dearg (f) | red land corn. |
| feur | hay (grass). |
| corkey (f) | oats. |
| feurachag | pasture. |
| (b) Various types of arable land |
| an dreel (f) | potatoes in drill. |
| an giada (f) | potatoes in lazy bed. |
| garag | plot or garden. |
| paàrk (f) | field. |
| paàrk mhòr | big field. |
| groond gan bhar | fallow ground or ground without crop. |
| groond trocha | ploughed land. |
| lakin | land between croft and hill. |
| eint | lease. |
| clàr | word for divisions of land held separately between two tenants. |
| (c) Actual dividing and allocating of land, e.g. casting lots |
| (d) Land owned or held under leases of various duration |
| croit | croft. |
| fearann | farm. |
| iond | lease. |
| 2. Harness of a horse |
| (a) The harness of a horse as used in the performance of different tasks |
| For carting: |
| braìdh | collar. |
| sraher (f) | saddle. |
| brekish (f) | britches. |
| | blinders. |
| For ploughing: |
| braìdh | collar. |
| braidh-maidje | wooden hems [sic]. |
| tooga | chains. |
| grailikin (f) | plough trees. |
| Harrowing: |
| cliadhan | harrows. |
| cliag | harrowing in field. |
| (b) Different parts of the harness for carting |
| (c) Different parts of the harness for ploughing or harrowing |
| 3. Carts |
| (a) The common farm-yard cart |
| “cartch” | the farm yard cart. |
| feun | the farm yard cart. [NOTES: ‘feun’ added in pencil.] |
| cartch monaidh | cart for use in taking home peats, “creel”. |
| [couping cart] | (No couping carts in Arran.) |
| (b) Different parts of a cart |
| 1. Body |
| 2. Trams |
| 3. Wheel and axle |
| an roth | wheel. |
| ashery | axle. |
| iomlac | nave. |
| 4. Decorations |
| Colour: |
| doan | brown. |
| gorham | green. |
| (c) Other words associated with carting |
| 4. The plough |
| (a) Different kinds of ploughs |
| beartch èiran | iron plough. |
| seisrigh | a pair of horses. Two horses for ploughing in light soil. |
| (b) Parts of a plough in detail |
| reest | mould board. |
| coutar | coltair. |
| 5. Harrows and swingle trees |
| (a) Different types of harrows |
| cliathan | harrows. |
| grailaiken | swingle trees. |
| (b) Swingle trees |
| na toughachan | chains. |
| 6. Spring work |
| (a) Fertilisers and fertilising |
| 1. Fertilisers |
| feamaire | sea-weed. |
| “seol mara” | sea weed cut off the rocks. |
| eanyar | farm yard manure. |
| 2. The actual work performed, e.g. transporting seaweed/manure to field |
| kartach feumari (f) | carting seaweed. |
| kartach eïnar (f) | carting farmyard manure. |
| 3. Implements used for lifting, carrying and spreading manure or seaweed |
| gràpa cròm | graip for pulling dung out of cart. |
| bhara-roth | wheelbarrow. [NOTES: ‘th’ added in pencil.] |
| (b) Turning and tilling the soil |
| 1. Implements used for turning or tilling the soil |
| beartch | plough. |
| cleahan | harrows. |
| 2. Parts of the implements used |
| 3. Words used in connection with tilling the soil, e.g. digging |
| gaida | lazy bed. |
| breashach | first furrow. |
| (c) Seed planting |
| 1. Names of seeds planted and words used for sowing or planting these |
| cuir corka | sowing corn. |
| cuir buntata | planting potatoes [NOTES: originally ‘phuntata’, corrected in pencil.] |
| cnap | single potato. [NOTES: the last item added in pencil.] |
| 2. Names of any special sack, basket etc. used for carrying seed when sowing or planting |
| am bràt | apron for plating potatoes. |
| 3. Names of any special implement used for planting |
| 7. Summer work |
| (a) Cleaning and weeding potatoes |
| gartlan | weeding. |
| (b) Thinning and weeding other crops |
| tennach (f) | thinning turnips. |
| 8. Autumn work |
| (a) Hay making |
| 1. The implement used for (a) cutting (b) raking and turning (c) lifting and stacking |
| coran | sickle. |
| speal | scythe. |
| clach speal | sharpener. |
| 2. Name the parts of the implements mentioned |
| coran | reaping hook. |
| 3. Various stages of hay-making |
| (b) Corn cutting and securing |
| 1. Implements used for cutting, raking, binding, lifting into stacks etc. |
| speal (f) | implement for cutting corn or hay. |
| buain (f) | cutting corn or hay. |
| keal an skuab (f) | binding the sheaf. |
| cuir-a steach (ans) an eilan (f) | [sic] taking in to stackyard. |
| 2. Bands (for tying corn), sheaves, stooks etc. |
| adag | stook. 6 sheaves for redland corn, 8 sheaves for lea corn. |
| 3. Stack making (in yard) |
| moulin | stack. |
| roapin | ropes. |
| touah | thatch. |
| soogan | heather and/or straw ropes. |
| 4. Methods of carrying or transporting corn from field to cornyard |
| cur is stach | carting in corn. |
| (c) Potato lifting and storing |
| 1. Implements |
| claioch lei graipa (f) | digging with graips. |
| 2. Sack, creel, barrow etc. used for carrying potatoes in field and to steading |
| bascaid (f) | basket. |
| caiteag | basket. [NOTES: ‘caiteag’ added in pencil.] |
| 3. Where potatoes are kept or stored |
| f. | [gender?] cheevitch [?] for covering potatoes. |
| 4. Potato diseases |
| (d) Other crops (Lifting and storing) |
| 1. Implements used for lifting |
| 2. How and where crop is stored |
| 3. Diseases/insects which attack the particular crop(s) |
| 9. Winter work |
| (a) Land drainage |
| 1. Drains, ditches etc. |
| dig (jeek) (f) | ditch. |
| 2. Implements used |
| sluasid cas fada (f) | long shafted shovel. |
| (b) Potato cutting for seed |
| 1. Instruments used |
| 2. Different kinds of potatoes |
| (c) Corn threshing |
| 1. Implements used |
| f suisead buailtean | [gender?] flail. |
| dais | heaps of sheaves. |
| 2. Threshing |
| boidenach | battleing [sic] straw. [NOTES: this item added in pencil.] |
| (d) Grain winnowing |
| 1. Devices used |
| 2. How constructed and materials used. Winnowing. |
| 10. Permanent structures/buildings for storing crops |
| (a) Stack-yard |
| f iolainn | [gender?] stack-yard. |
| iolann | barn yard. |
| (b) Barn and parts of a barn |
| sabhal | barn. |
| 11. Modern implements and machines |
