Schooling
There is no school in the village. Before the 1872 Education Act, there was a school known as Taigh Sgoile Sheorais (George's School House), run by the Scottish Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge and named after the teacher, George Beaton, who is thought to have come from Skye. The site was possibly on what is now croft number 49. Since that time, primary school pupils have travelled to Airidhantuim Primary School in nearby Shader, and secondary school pupils to Lionel School in Ness or the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway.
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