Clachanmore

Clachanmore
Scots Gaelic: *An Clachan Mòr*
Clachanmore Scots Gaelic: An Clachan Mòr;
	Clachanmore Location within Dumfries an Gallowa
Population	20 estimate
Cooncil area	Dumfries an Gallowa;
Lieutenancy area	Wigtown;
Kintra	Scotland
Sovereign state	Unitit Kinrick
Post toun	Stranraer
Postcode destrict	DG9
Diallin code	01776-860
Police	Scots
Fire	Scots
Ambulance	Scots
EU Pairlament	Scotland
UK Pairlament	Dumfries and Galloway;
Scots Pairlament	Galloway and Upper Nithsdale;
	Leet o places UK Scotland 54°46′43″N 4°58′52″W / 54.778549°N 4.981072°WCoordinates: 54°46′43″N 4°58′52″W / 54.778549°N 4.981072°W

Clachanmore is a veelage in the Rhins o Gallowa near Ardwell in the historical coonty o Wigtounshire in Dumfries an Gallowa, Scotland. It his been kent an aw as Law Ardwell.^[1]

The name o the veelage means 'muckle clachan' (Scots Gaelic: Clachan Mòr) an micht derive fae a stane circle that umwhile stuid there.^[2] There is the remeens o a circular pen on Barrack Knowe near Heich Clachanmore fermhoose.^[3]

Clachanmore schuil is the maist kenspeckle biggin in the veelage. The biggin dates tae 1831^[4] an wis the schuil for Ardwell. There is a smaw dominie's hoose neist door. Until 2003 it wis an airt gailerie, it is noo a preevat hoose.

References[eedit | eedit soorce]

↑ Maria Trotter, ed. Saxon, Galloway Gossip Sixty Years Ago: Being a Series of Articles Illustrative of the Manners, Customs, and Peculiarities of the Aboriginal Picts of Galloway, Choppington, Northumberland: R. Trotter, 1877, OCLC 25797165, pp. 79-80.
↑ Clachanmore Archived 2012-10-18 at the Wayback Machine, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.
↑ Barrack Knowe, High Clachanmore Archived 2012-03-13 at the Wayback Machine at ScotlandsPlaces.
↑ Dumfries & Galloway: Summary of places of interest Archived 2010-05-08 at the Wayback Machine, CAST.

Sources[eedit | eedit soorce]

Clachanmore at Gazetteer for Scotland

[1] Maria Trotter, ed. Saxon, Galloway Gossip Sixty Years Ago: Being a Series of Articles Illustrative of the Manners, Customs, and Peculiarities of the Aboriginal Picts of Galloway, Choppington, Northumberland: R. Trotter, 1877, OCLC 25797165, pp. 79-80.

[2] Clachanmore Archived 2012-10-18 at the Wayback Machine, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.

[3] Barrack Knowe, High Clachanmore Archived 2012-03-13 at the Wayback Machine at ScotlandsPlaces.

[4] Dumfries & Galloway: Summary of places of interest Archived 2010-05-08 at the Wayback Machine, CAST.

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