BALIGIL, burn on east boundary of Farr parish, Sutherland.
BALIGRUNDLE, place, with public school, in Lismore parish, Argyleshire.
BALINTORE.
BALINTRAID, harbour with pier in Kilmuir-Easter parish, Ross-shire.
BALISHEAR, island, about 3 \ miles long, near south-west coast of North Uist, Outer Hebrides. Pop. 197.
BALKAIL, seat adjacent to Glenluce, Wigtonshire.
BALKELLO, hamlet in Tealing parish, Forfarshire.
BALLACHULISH, town on northern verge of Argyleshire, and quoad sacra parish, partly also in Inverness-shire. The town comprises Ballachulish Ferry on Loch Leven, miles south-south-west of Fort-William, and Ballachulish quarries, in mouth of Glencoe, a short distance to the east ; is a centre of business, and of tourist routes for an extensive surrounding country ; and has a post office, with telegraph, under Fort-William, a banking office, a hotel, an Established church, enlarged in 1880, a Free church, and a notable Episcopalian church. Slate quarries here began to be worked in 1697, underwent great stimulation in 1863, and yield about 15,000,000 of slates a year. Pop. of the town, 1075. The quoad sacra parish excludes the town, and is called either North Ballachulish or Ballachulish and Ardgour, and has Established, Free, and Episcopalian churches. Pop. 749.
BALLAGAN, cascade of 70 feet on Blane river, at its emergence from Lennox Hills, in Strathblane, Stirlingshire.
BALLANBREICH (popularly BAMBREICH), barony on the Tay, in Flisk parish, Fife. It gives the title of baroness to the Countess of Rothes, and it retains ruins of a magnificent ancient castle.
BALLANDARG, seat in Kirriemuir parish, Forfarshire.
BALLANGEICH, ancient footway from north side of Stirling Castle, Stirling. It was James v.'s line of exit on his eccentric incognito expeditions, and gave him the popular soubriquet of ' Gudeman o' Ballangeich.'
BALLANREE, cliff at Berigonium on Ardchattan coast, Argyleshire. Its name signifies 'King's town,' and aids the traditional fancy that Berigonium was a capital or royal city of Dalriada.
BALLANTRAE, village and parish in south-western extremity of Ayrshire. The village stands on Stinchar river, near the' sea, 12^ miles south-south-west of Girvan, and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Girvan, a banking office, an inn, an artificial tidal harbour, Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 201 scholars. Pop. 424. The parish contains also Glenapp hamlet, and is about 10 miles long and nearly 10 miles broad. Acres, 33,561. Real property in 1880-81, 15,214. Pop. 1442. The land is much diversified, and rises from low ground on the shore to mountains on the flank of the Southern Highlands. There are 4 schools for 366 scholars, and 2 of them and a class-room for 170 are new.
BALLAT, bog in Drymen parish, Stirlingshire. It lies at the watershed between the Clyde and the Forth, yet is only 222 feet above sea-level.
BALLATER, village on the Dee, 43 miles west-by-south of Aberdeen. It presents a pleasant appearance, amid charming environs ; is a favourite summer resort, both for its own sake and for the sake of its vicinity to Pannanich wells ; and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Aberdeen, a railway station, 2 banking offices, a hotel, an Albert Memorial Hall of 1875, barracks for soldiers in summer attendance on the Queen, a fine bridge in lieu of 2 previous bridges swept away by floods, a water supply of 1873, Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 87 scholars. Pop. 759. Ballater Pass, beyond a hill in the north-western vicinity, is a precipitous wooded gorge ; and Ballater or Monaltrie House stands near the pass's south-east end.
BALLATRIGH, farmhouse, where Lord Byron lived when a boy, near Ballater, Aberdeenshire.
BALLECHIN, seat in Logierait parish, Perthshire.
BALLEDGARNO, village and seat in Inchture parish, Perthshire.
BALLENACH, place near west end of Crinan Canal, Argyleshire.
BALLENCRIEFF, a seat of Lord Elibank, in Aberlady parish, Haddingtonshire.
BALLENCRIEFF, stream, running north-westward to the Avon, in Torphichen parish, Linlithgowshire.
BALLENDRICK, seat in Dunbarny parish, Perthshire.
BALLENDRUM, place in Glenmoriston, Inverness-shire.
BALLESHARE.
BALLEYAIRD, place, 3 miles north of Grantown, Elginshire.
BALLIANLAY, place in North Bute parish, Buteshire. It has a public school with about 46 scholars.
BALLIGROGAN, place, 6 miles west-south-west of Campbelton, Argyleshire.
BALLIKINRAIN, seat near Killearn, Stirlingshire.
BALLIMORE, seat in Kilfinan parish, Argyleshire.
BALLINDALLOCH, hamlet and mansion on the Spey, 9f miles south-west of Aberlour, Banffshire. The hamlet has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Craigellachie, and a railway station. The mansion is a seat of Sir George Macpherson-Grant, Bart.
BALLINDALLOCH, estate and factory in Balfron parish, Stirlingshire.
