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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Scot., fr. Gael.]

A small village containing a church.

[Scot.]

Sir W. Scott

Sitting at the

clachon alehouse

R. L. Stevenson.

clachan ‎(plural clachans)

(Scotland) A small village or hamlet, especially in the Highlands or Western Scotland.
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
  ‘Now, Penpunt, you may tell me all that passed between you and the wives of the clachan.’

clachan m ‎(genitive and plural clachain)