VERNACULAR 1700 - Present

Clachans

‘A clachan (or ‘baile’ or village) was a nucleated group of farmhouses, where landholding was organised communally, frequently on a townland basis, and often with considerable ties of kinship between the families involved.’
[Kevin Whelan p.80 Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape]

Sometimes clachans were a collection of dwellings in an entirely rural location; at other times they were on either side of a country lane.