MacAskill, Margaret

Dancer from South Boisdale. Aged 80 in 1956.  She was the grandaughter of Ewen MacLachlan’s sister Isabella, but did not see much of Ewen’s dances  However she did learn some dances which were done in her mother’s croft at Smerclett including the solo Over the Hills and Far Away for which she was able to provide a notation.

Information derived from an interviews by Frank Rhodes with Margaret MacAskill on 8/7/1956.