achadh an droighinn/auchindrain is first found in documentary references from the early 16th century. at this time the settlement was clearly an established one. it is not known precisely when the township was initially established, but because of its location on the relatively high and poor ground of the watershed between two rivers, the “field of….” in its name, and its nearness to the former township site of braleckan – bràigh leacann, it is suggested that it may very well have been founded through “splitting” of the braleckan township as a result of population growth in the late medieval period.