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.