Lexicographical Neighbors of Clachans
Literary usage of Clachans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1866)
"It's an awfu' thing to think o' wide districts, sprinkled wi' touns and villages,
and clachans, and thousands o' single houses, a' crowded wi' human beings, ..."
2. Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness by Gaelic Society of Inverness (1907)
"The word developed into the meaning of oratory or kirk, and, from the cluster
of ' clachans' making a monastic community, into 'village,' which is its only ..."
3. The Word by Harold Waldwin Percival (1912)
"And surely I do well to sing to the honor of Lillie and of the healing hand.
Yea, I do well. AMONG THE OLD clachans. Truly memorable were many of our ..."
4. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1870)
"The Highlanders say they are going to the clachans, meaning the stone circle,
when they are going to the kirk or church : an irrefragable living proof of ..."
5. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland: Being a Series of by Norah, McDougall, Margaret Dixon, 1826-1898, Margaret Dixon McDougall (1882)
"After a lapse of years these clachans in some cases expanded into small towns.
The people built houses and made improvements on their holdings, paying their ..."
6. Poems and Songs: Humorous, Serious, and Satirical by Alexander Rodger (1901)
"It may be said, of course, that most clachans contain a smiddy, and many of them
a burn. But it is not likely that of three ..."
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