Photograph of the month for January 2012
The Cloch More
The Cloch More (big stone) stands in a field opposite the entrance to Concraig in the North East corner of the parish. A nearby house is named after the stone. It is likely that the original place name of Auchinclech (field of stone) took its name from this stone rather than the stone circle south of the later farm of Auchinclech. The Ordnance Survey Name Book in 1864 says that a small clachan or hamlet once stood beside the Cloch More so maybe this was the original fermtoun of Auchinclech recorded in the Poll Tax Book of 1696. The Dean of Guild documents from 1788 refer to Cloch More as a pendicle suggesting that there was some kind of fermtoun or community here.
The Cloch More (big stone) stands in a field opposite the entrance to Concraig in the North East corner of the parish. A nearby house is named after the stone. It is likely that the original place name of Auchinclech (field of stone) took its name from this stone rather than the stone circle south of the later farm of Auchinclech. The Ordnance Survey Name Book in 1864 says that a small clachan or hamlet once stood beside the Cloch More so maybe this was the original fermtoun of Auchinclech recorded in the Poll Tax Book of 1696. The Dean of Guild documents from 1788 refer to Cloch More as a pendicle suggesting that there was some kind of fermtoun or community here.
