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 Longforgan parish, Perthshire.
BALLOCH, village on Leven river, near foot of Loch Lomond, 4J 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 previous 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, Bantfshire.
BALLOCH, hill on north-west boundary of Kildonan parish, Sutherland.
BALLOCHLEAM, battle-field between the Grahams and the Leckies, near boundary between Gargunnock and Kippen parishes, Stirlingshire.
BALLOCHMORIE, seat in Colmonell parish, Ayrshire.
BALLOCHMYLE, seat and grounds, sung by the poet Burns, on the river Ayr, 1 1/2 miles south-east of Mauchline, Ayrshire.
BALLOCHNEY, suburb of Airdrie, and part of Monkland railway system, Lanark-ahire.
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 South end parish, Argyleshire.
BALMACAAN, seat of the Earl of Seafield, 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 Dumfriesshire 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, Kirkcudbrightshire. 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 history 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.
