A clachan (Irish: clochán [ˈkl̪ˠɔxaːnˠ] or clachan [ˈkl̪ˠaxənˠ]; Scottish Gaelic: clachan [ˈkʰl̪ˠaxan]; Manx: claghan) is a small settlement or hamlet on the island of Ireland, the Isle of Man and …

Clachan is the site of an old church, which was the principal church for the North Kintyre area. The church is surrounded by carved stone statues of the chiefs of the Clan Alasdair. Another …

It is now generally agreed that a clachan has the following characteristics: Small settlement of clustered houses. No church, and usually, no shop or school. Usually, considerable ties of …

village, settlement that is smaller than a town but bigger than a hamlet (a very small settlement lacking many of its own institutions). A village is primarily categorized according to its …

The meaning of CLACHAN is hamlet.

The rundale system of agriculture consisted of nucleated villages known as clachans. Usually the land was of poor quality and the population of people trying to make a living was intensive.

The idea of the clachan is largely a construction of a particular school of thought about the history of the Irish landscape. Classical models of settlement and related patterns present in …

A clachan is a type of small nucleated settlement common in Ireland until the middle of the 20th century. They are usually defined as small villages lacking a church, post office, or other …

Stone favors near-constant motion onstage, and for this “Lucia,” Lizzie Clachan has designed a perpetually rotating and transforming little town, its structures collapsed into and overlapping …

A village on the Kintyre Peninsula, Argyll and Bute, Clachan lies near the mouth of West Loch Tarbert, 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Tarbert. Associated with the Clan Alasdair, Clachan …