CLACKMANNAN, county town and parish, Clackmannan shire, Scotland. Pop. (r 931) 2,585. It lies near the north bank of the Forth, 2 m. east of Alloa, with two stations on the L.N.E.R. Clackmannan Tower is now a picturesque ruin, but at one time was the seat of a lineal descendant of the Bruce family. The old market cross still exists, and close to it stands the stone that gives the town its name (Gaelic, clach, stone; Manann, the name of the district). About 1 m. to the south-east is Kennet House, the seat of Lord Balfour of Burleigh, another member of the Bruce family. Coal is mined in the neighbourhood of Clackmannan, which, how ever, lost its industrial importance to Alloa (q.v.).