Map Reference: Barrapol 8
Name Type: house
Meaning: See Tobhta na Cailliche Bheir in Longships on the Sand.
Other Forms: Tobhta nan Cailleach -Hugh MacLean, Barrapol, collected by Ailean Boyd
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Information:"[The Cailleach] was often called the cailleach bheur, which was understood in Scotland to mean the 'shrill voiced hag,' although in reality her name goes a thousand years back in Irish literature and folklore to the cailleach Beara, or old wife of Beare, which is a place in west Cork." Ronald Black, The Quern Dust Calendar, WHFP, 19.1.96.
The cailleach is said to have made these remarks:
"Chunnaic mi Loch a' Phuill mar thobar beag cruinn agus Sgeir Mhòr nan Ròn o eòrna breac gorm [I saw Loch a' Phuill as a small round well and Skerryvore covered with dappled green barley]." David McClounnan, Balephuil, 2/1996.
The Cailleach Beur lived there. She had a well near at hand which she had to cover every night. One night she forgot to do this and the water overflowed to form Loch a' Phuill - unknown informant.
Local Form:
Languages : Norse, GaelicInformants: Donald MacNeill (Dòmhnall an Tàilleir), The Land, 1/1994
Informant 2: Hugh MacLean, Barrapol, collected by Ailean Boyd
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