50162: Gaelic School, Gravir
Angus Macleod of Calbost indicates that a Gaelic Society school was opened in Gravir in 1822. It may have been located at 21 Gravir.
The school Gravir was delayed by the lack of wood for the roof; a fir log was eventually washed ashore however and the school was built.
The census of 1851 lists a Catherine Crichton, born Stornoway and aged 38, as a teacher of English Reading and Sewing living in Gravir, along with her widowed mother Henrietta. No teacher appears in Gravir in the 1841 census.
A Ladies’ Highland Association School was subsequently opened at 20 Gravir, in 1854.
Details
- Record Type:
- Building or Public Amenity
- Type Of Building Public Amenity:
- School
- Record Maintained by:
- CEP