114950: Gaelic School, Old Coll

Tigh Sgoil, Col Seann

Old Coll School was set up by the Edinburgh Gaelic Schools' Society. These schools had no set hours, but varied depending on the teacher. The teachers taught the people to read scriptures in Gaelic and were also expected to read scripture to the villages on a Sunday, to aid the minister in pastoral work, and to catechise their scholars. Teachers were intended to only be in one place for around eighteen months, at which point it was expected some of the students would be at a level that would enable them to teach others.

John Munro taught there, after he left Tolsta, in 1819.