Primary Sources
C2 The End of the Little Bridge C2.85: 203
D1 Ceann na Drochaid Big / The Clan’s Gathering D1.7: 38
G Kiaunma Drochid a Beig / The Head of the Little Bridge G.12: 28
K1 Ceann na Drochaid a Bige / The End of the Little Bridge / Index: The End (or Battle) of… K1.72: 165
Notes on Gaelic Titles
Ceann na Drochaide Bige The End of the Little Bridge C2; Ceann na Drochaid Big / The Clan’s Gathering D1; Kiaunma Drochid a Beig / The Head of the Little Bridge G; Kiaun na drochid a beig… Gesto Notes; Ceann na Drochaid a Bige / The End of the Little Bridge K1; The End (or Battle) of ~ K1 index. The End/Head of the Little Bridge. MacLeod of Gesto (G) confirms – if he did not suggest – Angus MacKay’s explanatory gloss ‘or battle’, with a story of a skirmish in Ireland in which the MacLeod piper played ‘inviting the Camerons to follow him, which they did’. A nineteenth century MS refers to a song ‘Cean na Drochaid or the head of the Bridge’, without the adjective (D. Morrison, Manuscript, Stornoway Public Library, c.1820; reference provided by the late Rev. W. Matheson, The Blind Harper, The Scottish Gaelic Texts Society, Edinburgh [1970]; see N. Macdonald, The Morrison Manuscript[:]Traditions of the Western Isles by Donald Morrison[,] Cooper[,] Stornoway, No Imprint [1975], p. 24).
Archive Recordings
1971 George Moss
1981 George Moss
Other Material
2007 Recording of Campbell’s setting by Allan MacDonald
2019 Edition of Gesto’s setting with audio commentary by Barnaby Brown