[1] The name of the village means 'big village' (Clachan Mòr, in Gaelic) and may derive from a stone circle that formerly stood there;[2] there are remains of a circular enclosure on Barrack Knowe near High Clachanmore farmhouse.

[3] Clachanmore school is the most prominent building in the village.

The building dates to 1831[4] and was the school for Ardwell.

There is a small schoolmaster's house next door.

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