BALCONY, castellated mansion, formerly ;L scat of the Earls of Ross, near Evanton, Ross-shim
BALCRUVIE, ruined ancient castle in Largo parish, Fife.
BALCURVIE, village in Markinch parish, Fife. It has a public school with about 83 scholars.
BALDERNOCK, parish on south border of Stirlingshire, averagely 1\ miles north of Glasgow. Post town, Glasgow. Acres, 4322. Real property in 1880-81, 3868. Pop. 569. The surface rises from the river Kelvin to the skirt of Campsie Fells, and comprises successively alluvial flat, swelling knolls, and moorish hill. The minerals include coal, lime, ironstone, fire-clay, pyrites, and alum-ore ; and an interesting antiquity is the large cromlech, called Auld Wife's Lift. The churches are Established and Free. The public school has accommodation for 105 scholars.
BALDOON, estate, with ruined castle, 1 miles south-south-west of Wigton. The castle was the scene of the incident which suggested to Sir Walter Scott the tragic end of his Bride ofLammermoor.
BALDOVAN, village, with railway station, 7| miles north-north-west of Dundee. Baldovan House is the seat of Sir John Ogilvie, Bart.
BALDOVIE, hamlet and seat near Kirriemuir, Forfarshire. The hamlet has a post office under Dundee.
BALDOWRIE, seat on south-west border of Forfarshire, near Coupar-Angus.
BALDRAGON, railway station, 8| miles north-north-west of Dundee.
BALDRIDGE, estate and suburb on north-west side of Dunfermline, Fife. The suburb has a public school with about 240 scholars.
BALERNO, village on Water of Leith, 7 miles south-west of Edinburgh. It has a post office, with money order department, under Currie, a railway station, a United Presbyterian church, and a public school with about 112 scholars. Pop. 474.
BALFIELD, hamlet in Lethnot parish, Forfarshire.
BALFOUR, remnant of castle built by Cardinal Beaton, in Kingoldrum parish, Forfarshire.
BALFOUR, seat on the Leven, in Markinch parish, Fife.
BALFOUR, seat near Kincardine O'Xeil, Aberdeenshire.
BALFOUR, hamlet and splendid modern n: in sion in Shapinshay Island, Orkney. The hamlet has a post office under Kirkwall.
BALFRISHEL, village in Boleskine parish, Inverness-shire.
BALFRON, town and parish in Strath-endnck district, Stirlingshire. The town stan.ls on Endrick river, 1^ mile east of a railway station of its own name, 19f miles west-south-west of Stirling; is a neat modern seat of manufacture, and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Glasgow, a banking office, a parochial church, a United Presbyterian church, and a public school with about 147 scholars. Pop. 970. The parish contains also Holm of Balfron hamlet, and is about 11 miles long and 3 miles broad. Acres, 7820. Real property in 1880-81, 7767. Pop. 1327. The surface includes a fine tract of 6 miles along the Endrick, and rises thence northward to Balgair Moor. There are a Free church for Killearn and Balfron, a United Presbyterian church at Holm of Balfron, and 2 public schools for 288 scholars.
BALGAIR, estate in Balfron parish, Stirlingshire.
BALGARVIE, seat in Monimail parish, Fife.
BALGAVTES, seat and lake near Auldbar railway station, Forfarshire.
BALGAY, wooded hill, with public park, in north-western outskirts of Dundee.
BALGEDDIE, hamlet in Portmoak parish, Kinross-shire. It has a United Presbyterian church.
BALGIE, rivulet in Applecross parish, Ross-shire.
BALGLASS, estate in Killearn parish, Stirlingshire. An ancient fortalice on it is believed to have been a retreat of Sir William Wallace.
BALGONAR, seat in Saline parish, Fife.
BALGONE, seat of Sir George Suttie, Bart., in North Berwick parish, Haddingtonshire.
BALGONIE, quoad sacra parish with village on river Leven, 2 miles south-east of Markinch, Fife. It has a post office under Markinch, an Established church with 650 sittings, and a public school with about 80 scholars. Pop. 1394. Coalton, or Coalton of Balgonie, village is in the vicinity. Pop. 419. Balgonie House and Balgonie Castle are also in the vicinity, and the latter is a large ancient baronial fortalice, and was once a seat of the Earls of Leven.
BALGOWAN, railway station, estate, and public school, 9 miles west of Perth. The school has about 87 scholars.
BALGOWN, bay in Kirkmaiden parish, Wigtonshire.
BALGOWNIE, seat and bridge in Old Machar parish, Aberdeenshire.
BALGRAY, hamlet on the Kelvin, about 3 miles north-north-west of Glasgow. Nearly 30 fossil trees were discovered in a quarry here, about 1828, all exogenous, standing close to one another in their natural position.
BALGRAY, hamlet in Tealing parish, Forfarshire.
BALGREGGAN, scat in Stoneykirk parish, Wigtonshire.
BALHADDIE, hamlet in Ardoch pai-ish, Perthshire.
BALHARY, seat in Alyth parish, Perthshire.
BALIGARVE, place, with public school, in Lismore parish, Argyleshire.
