Brechin, a town in Forfarshire, W. of Montrose, on the S. Esk, with a cathedral and an old round tower near it, 85 ft. high, the only one of the kind in Scotland besides being at Abernethy.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Brèche-de-Roland * Breda