tholtan

Etymology
From. Compare.

Noun

 * 1)  An abandoned house; a ruin of a building which was once a home.
 * 2) * 1981, The Times Reports of Debates in the Manx Legislature, volume 98, page T-905:
 * You can be sitting in a tholtan down in back Castle Street in Peel in a bit of property that is not fit to live in, but it will still be rated at about £55. So the whole system, really, is wrong.
 * 1) * 1995 July–August, Ancestry Magazine, volume 13, number 4:
 * Throughout the Isle, abandoned tholtans, devoid of their thatched roofs and whitewash, are silent reminders of the people who once were sheltered near the warmth of their hearths and sang in their own Celtic tongue.

Noun

 * 1) a ruin of a house