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BALLINDEAN, hamlet, mansion, and
hill, in Inchture parish, Perthshire.
BALLINGRY (popularly BINGRY) , parish,
containing small part of Lochgelly post
town, Fife. Acres, 4621. Real property
in 1880-81, £8036. Pop., quoad civilia,
1065 ; quoad sacra, 460. About one-
third is under the plough. Binarty Hill,
screening south end of Loch Leven, is
partly within the northern border. The
drained bed of Loch Ore, once a consider-
able lake, lies in the northern section.
Lochore House, between that and Binarty,
is a prominent feature. The site of a
Roman camp, thought to have been the
scene of a victory over the ninth Roman
Legion by the Caledonians, lies to the
west of that mansion. The church was
renovated in 1876, and the public school is
new, and has capacity for 250 scholars.
BALLINLUIG, village, 8J miles north-
north-west of Dunkeld, Perthshire. It
stands adjacent to deflection of branch
railway to Aberfeldy, and has a station
there and a head post office.
BALLINTORE, fishing village, about 7
miles south - east of Tain, Ross-shire.
Pop. 435.
BALLINTUIM, hamlet in Kirkmichael
parish, Perthshire. It has a post office
under Blairgowrie, and a public school
with about 63 scholars.
BALLO, one of the Sidlaw Hills, in Long-
forgan parish, Perthshire.
BALLOCH, village on Leven river, near
foot of Loch Lomond, 4tj miles north of
Dumbarton. It adjoins the junction of
Vale of Leven and Forth and Clyde Rail-
ways ; communicates by a railway of about
7 furlongs with a steamboat pier on Loch
Lomond ; and has a railway station, an
excellent hotel, and a fine suspension
bridge. Pop. 159. Balloch Castle, in
its vicinity, is a modern seat ; and a pre-
vious Balloch Castle, now extinct, was a
fortified seat of the Earls of Lennox.
BALLOCH, village in Inverness parish,
Inverness-shire.
BALLOCH, small lake at foot of Torlum,
Muthil parish, Perthshire.
BALLOCH, original pile of Taymouth
Castle, Perthshire.
BALLOCH, hill, 1199 feet high, near
Keith, Banffshire.
BALLOCH. hill on north-west boundary
of Kildonan parish, Sutherland.
BALLOCHLEAM, battle-field between
the Grahams and the Leckies, near
boundary between Gargunnock and Kip-
pen parishes, Stirlingshire.
BALLOCHMORIE, seat in Colmonell
parish, Ayrshire.
BALLOCHMYLE, seat and grounds, sung
by the poet Burns, on the river Ayr, 1J
miles south - east of Mauchline, Ayr-
shire.
BALLOCHNEY, suburb of Airdrie, and
part of Monkland railway system, Lanark-
shire.
BALLOCHVOY, village, about 4 miles
west - south - west of Tobermory, Mull
Island, Argyleshire.
BALLOGIE, seat, small Roman Catholic
chapel, and public school with about 73
scholars, in Birse parish, Aberdeenshire.
BALLONE, dilapidated, large, ancient
castle of the Earls of Ross, in Tarbat
parish, Ross-shire.
BALLUMBIE, seat and remains of old
castle in Murroes parish, Forfarshire.
BALLYGRANT, place in south-east of
Islay Island, Argyleshire. It has a post
office under Greenock.
BALLYOUKIN, seat near Pitlochrie,
Perthshire.
BALLYPHUILL, hamlet in Kincardine
parish, Ross-shire.
BALLYSHEAR, seat in Southend parish,
Argyleshire.
BALMACAAN, seat of the Earl of Sea-
field, in lower valley of Urquhart, near
Loch Ness, Inverness-shire.
BALMACARRA, seat and hotel on north
side of Loch Alsh, Ross- shire.
BALMACLELLAN, village and parish in
north of Kirkcudbrightshire. The village
stands on Ken river, 1^ mile north of
New Galloway, and has a post office under
New Galloway. The parish extends from
the Ken to the boundary with Dumfries-
shire at Loch Urr, and is about 14 miles
long and 10 miles broad. Acres, 23,019.
Real property in 1880-81, £11,565. Pop.,
quoad civilia, 937; quoad sacra, 787.
The tract, for 2 or 3 miles from the
Ken, is low ground, diversified by ' drums,'
and the rest of the surface is chiefly an
assemblage of moors, mosses, and rugged
hills. There are 3 public schools, with
about 168 scholars.
BALMADIES, estate, with Ochterlony
mansion, in Rescobie parish, Forfarshire.
BALMAE, seat near Kirkcudbright,
Kirkcudbrightshire.
BALMAGHIE, parish on right side of
the Dee, near Castle-Douglas, Kirkcud-
brightshire. It is about 9 miles long and
7 miles broad, and comprises 21,069 acres.
Real property in 1880-81, £11,920. Pop.
924. Much of the land adjacent to the
Dee is meadow, most in the south-east is
level, and the rest is a mixture of hills,
hollows, lakes, and morasses. 3 of the
lakes have much attraction for anglers,
and one of them adjoins a hotel and a spa.
The chief seats are Balmaghie House
and Duchrae ; the chief antiquity is
Thrieve Castle, and a chief association is
with the histoiy of the Covenanters. The
churches are Established and Free ; and
there are 3 public schools, with about 180
scholars.
BALMAHA, village on east shore of
Loch Lomond, about 11 miles north-by-
east of Dumbarton. It has a pier and a
large chemical work, and it adjoins a
mountain pass by which the Highland
caterans made descents into the Lowlands.
BALMAKEWAN, seat in Marykirk parish,
Kincardineshire.