Clachan
Clachan is a small village in North Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Clachan is the site of an old church, which was the principal church for the North Kintyre area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Clachan, Kintyre”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Balinakill House and Dun Skeig.
Balinakill House
Guest house
Balinakill House is a Victorian manor house to the east of the village of Clachan, Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The house was built by Sir William Mackinnon, 1st Baronet of Strathaird and Loup, founder of the British India Steam Navigation Company, who purchased the estates of Balinakill and Loup in 1867.
Dun Skeig
Photo: douglas r small, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dun Skeig is an oval Iron Age dun complex which is perched atop a rocky outcropping about 130 metres above sea level overlooking West Loch Tarbert in Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, about 1 kilometre northwest of the village of Clachan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ardpatrick and Whitehouse.
Ardpatrick
Hamlet
Photo: Lambert, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ardpatrick is a village at the southwestern extremity of the Knapdale, Argyll, Scotland. The village is built along the north western shore of West Loch Tarbert. Ardpatrick is situated 2 miles northwest of Clachan.
Whitehouse
Hamlet
Photo: Johnny Durnan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitehouse is a hamlet on the Kintyre Peninsula in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland. It is located around 5.5 miles southwest of Tarbert and around 25 miles north of Campbeltown. Whitehouse is situated 4½ miles northeast of Clachan.
Kilberry
Hamlet
Kilberry is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is close to the western coast of the district of Knapdale. Kilberry Castle, just to the west of the village, was built in 1497 as a L-plan castle by a cadet branch of Clan Campbell. Kilberry is situated 6 miles northwest of Clachan.
Clachan
- Category: locality
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.74678° or 55° 44′ 48″ northLongitude
-5.56178° or 5° 33′ 42″ westElevation
62 feet (19 metres)Open location code
9C7PPCWQ+P7OpenStreetMap ID
node 539378099OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Clachan” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Clachan (Kintyre)”
- Basque: “Clachan”
- Dutch: “Clachan”
- French: “Clachan”
- Irish: “An Clachan”
- Swedish: “Clachan, Kintyre”
- Swedish: “Clachan”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kilcalmonell Free Church, Clachan and Kilcalmonell and Kilberry Parish Church and Burial-Ground, Clachan.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Clachan”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.