William Mackay, Urquhart and Glenmoriston: Olden Times in a Highland Parish (Inverness, 1893)
Record
- Date
- 1893
- Reference
- pp. 415-416, 532-533, 570-571
- Seen as
- originalimagetranscriptabstractindex
What it says
“‘Braigh Rusgaich’ — the only song, so far as is known, composed by Iain Mac Dhughaill, Bunloit — has
for the last eighty or ninety years continued to be one of the most popular songs of the district of Loch
Ness. It was composed in Edinburgh, where the bard died in the early years of the present century”
(pp. 415-416); the Gaelic text is on pp. 532-533. Of the Nova Scotia settlers: “John Macdougall, son of
John Macdougall (Iain Mac Dhughaill), author of ‘Braigh Rusgaich’ … emigrated in 1828, and settled at
Blue Mountain” (p. 570). Mackay had his Nova Scotia information partly from Rev. D. B. Blair. (research/mcmillan/McMillan_Humphrey_Bell_Connections.md)