English / Map Form: Clachan
Gaelic Form: An Clachan
Location: Skye, Inner Hebrides
Post Town: PORTREE
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
Nearest Main Roads: A855
English / Map Form: Clachan
Gaelic Form: An Clachan
Language Notes
G nom. sg. masc. def. art. an + nom. sg. clachan, masc. 'hamlet, small village with a church'Element Meaning
G an, nom. sg. masc. def. art. + G nom. sg. clachan, masc. ‘stone, graveyard’, here in the sense of ‘village’ = ‘the village’
Sources
| Clachaine | 1596 RMS vi no. 453 |
| Clachan | 1630 Retours (Inverness) no. 50 |
| An Clachan | 1881 OS 6 inch 1st edn. |
| Clachan | Forbes 1923, 111 |