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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLOCHODRICK STONE | Clochodrick Clochodrick Stone Clochodrick Stone Clochodrick Stone Clochodrick Stone Clochodrick Stone Clock o druid or Druid Stone Clochoderick, or Clochnadruid |
Old Stat [St atistical] Acct [Account] Fowlers Paisley direcrory Mr. Houston, Poor law Inspector Mr. Ledgerwood, Factor Full Gazetteer Ainslie's Co. [County] Map 1790 New Statistical Acct [Account] |
011.10 | "About 2 miles west of the village, on an elevated plain is situated a huge stone called Clochodrick. This name is supposed to be a corruption of the words Cloch o druids, the stone of the druids. It consists of the same species of whinstone of wh. [which] the neighbouring hills are composed. This stone is about 22 ft. [feet] long 17 ft. [feet] broad, and 12 ft. [feet] high. It is of a rude oval figure extending east & west; but several fagments have been broken off, either from design, or by the injuries of the weather. It seems to rest on a narrow base below, and perhaps like other druidical stones was capable of being moved; but the lower part is now fillled up with stones gathered from the land over wh. [which] the grass is grown" Old Stat Acct. [Statistical Account] It derives its name from the Gaelic Clach-na dhruidbeaid, the Druid's stone. It is supposed that this stone is the remains of a druidical temple & that it was the alter on wh. [which] the priests offered sacrifices. But the circle of smaller stones, wh. [which] had probably surrounded it, and the grove of oaks, had all been removed by the husbandry of succeeding ages. Fowlers Paisley directory There are no "large grey stones" visible (see old St Acct. [Statistical Account]) around Clochodrick Stone, to verify the supposition that at one time it was within a sacred enclosure. It will be seen from the derivation given in Fowlers Paisley directory, that the word stone (Clochodrick Stone) is superflous. It is generally called "Clochodrick Stone" |
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[page] 78Cloch - a stone
Druidh - a Druid - Jamieson
"This Parish contains some remains of
Antiquity, the most remarkable of which is a huge fragment of
a rock called "the Clochodrick stone". It is supposed to have
formed part of a Druidical temple, & the supposition is coun
tenanced by the name, which is apparently a corruption of
the British words Cloch-y-Drywd, the Stone of the Druids."
Full Gazetteer
"About 2 miles W. [West] of the village, on an elevated plain, is situated
a huge stone, called Clochodrick. This name is suposed to be a
corruption of the words Cloch o Druids, the stone of the Druids."
Old Statistical Acct. [Account]
From two to three miles westward of this village, there is situated
on St Bride's Burn","a stone of uncommon dimensions, named,
as is the farm it stands on, Clochoderick, or Clachnadruid, i.e.
the Druidical Stone. - New Statistical Account.
P. 367
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