[2] Before the seminary moved to Lismore, Scottish seminarians were trained at Samalaman House near Loch Ailort.

The number of students at the college was increasing but the site was quite a small place, cramped and uncomfortable, with leaking roofs and unsubstantial walls.

Bishop Chisholm dismissed these objections by saying that it was more "accessible here to the world than where I have formerly been at Moidart", and that "we never had more or so much liberty to apply ourselves to learning and spiritual matters in any other place".

[1] The lime kiln made such a local impression that, 1814, when Sir Walter Scott visited the area, he wrote that: While Lismore seminary served the Vicariate Apostolic of the Highland District, Aquhorthies College in the east of Scotland served the Vicariate Apostolic of the Lowland District.

[4] This seminary opened on an island previously used as a secret chapel in the middle of Loch Morar, but students had to be sent home after the Jacobite rising of 1715.

This was on the mainland, but the students and staff fled when government soldiers approached the college in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and burned it down.

The rector, John Macdonald, visited the premises and subsequently wrote that it was not a suitable place because of the loudness of the inn.