PS 086 – Lament for the Laird of Contullich

Primary Sources

C2 Contalich’s Lament C2.2: 5
R Cumah Fir Sundaigh / MacDonald of Sanda’s Lament­ R.28: 22r
K2 Cumha Fear Chountullich / The Laird of Contullich’s Lament K2.36: 74
KK Cumha Fear Chountullich / The Laird of Contulick’s [sic] Lament KK.18: 33

Notes on Gaelic Titles

Cumha Fear Chontulaich Contalich’s Lament C2; Cumha Fear Chountullich / The Laird of Contullich’s Lament K2; Cumha Fear Chountullich / The Laird of Contulick’s [sic] Lament KK. Lament for the Laird of Contullich. Presumably John MacLeod, 2nd of Bernera (1647–1726) – see I.F. Grant, The MacLeods, the History of a Clan, Edinburgh (1959, reprinted 1981),  p. 387.

Cumha Fear Sanndaigh Cumah Fir Sundaigh / MacDonald of Sanda’s Lament R. Lament for the laird of Sanda.

Roderick Cannon (2009)

Other Material

William Donaldson’s Set Tunes Notes (2017)