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BANNOCKBURN - MUIR, suburb of Bannockburn town, Stirlingshire. It has a public school with about 136 scholars.

BANTASKINE, seat near Falkirk, Stirlingshire.

BANTON, quoad sacra parish, with village, 1 mile north-east of Kilsyth, Stirlingshire. It has a post office under Denny. Pop. of the village, 461 of the parish, 793.

BARACHNIE, village in Crossbill section of Old Monkland parish, Lanarkshire. Pop. 279.

BARASSIE, railway station, 1 mile from Troon, Ayrshire.

BARBARAVILLE, village in Kilmuir-Easter parish, Ross-shire.

BARBASWALLS, village in Ruthven parish, lorfarshire.

BARBER, hamlet in Roseneath parish, Dumbartonshire.

BARBIESTON, modernized old baronial fortahce near Dalrymple, Ayrshire

BARBRECK, seat and vale in Cr'aignish parish, Argyleshire. The vale is believed to have been the scene of a battle between the Dalnadana and the Norsemen

BARCALDINE, estate, with modern nansion and ancient castle, on Loch l1 a B^^T lattan P arish > Argyleshire.

BARCAPLE, seat in Tongland parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.

BARCLOSH, ruined ancient seat of Lord Herries in Kirkgunzeon parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.

BARD, bold headland at south end of Bressay Island, Shetland.

BARDOWIE, lake, 5 miles north-northwest of Glasgow.

BARGALLY, seat in Minnigaff parish, Kirkcudbrightshire .

BARGANY, seat in Dailly parish, Ayrshire.

BARGARRAN, place associated with a notable trial for witchcraft, in Erskine parish. Renfrewshire BARGATON, lake, 7 miles north-east of post office under Glasgow, and flourishing ironworks. The parish was constituted in 1876 ; and the church was opened near the end of that year, and cost, with the manse, about 9000. Pop. of the village, 659 ; of the parish, 2889.

BARGRENNAN, quoad sacra parish, comprising part of Minnigaff in Kirkcudbrightshire, and part of Penningham in Wigtonshire. It has a post office under Newton-Stewart, and a public school Pop. 203 and 163.

BARHEAD.

BARHILL, eminence, with vestiges of Roman fort, in Kirkintilloch parish, Dumbartonshrie.

BARHILL, Ayrshire.

BARHOLM, seat near Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire.

BARHULLION, hill in Glasserton parish, Wigtonshire.

BARJARG, village and estate in Keir parish, Dumfriesshire.

BARLEYSIDE, village in Falkirk parish, Stirlingshire.

BARLOCCO, seat in Rerrick parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.

BARMEKIN, lofty hill, with ancient circular f ortification,in Echt parish, Aberdeenshire.

BARMORE, peninsula and seat on west side of Loch Fyne, 2 miles north of Tarbert, Argyleshire.

BARNBARROCH, place in Oolveiid parish, Kirkcudbrightshire. It has a public school with about 66 scholars

BARNBARROCH, seat in Kirkinner parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.

BARNBOUGLE, splendid edifice of 1880-82, with fragment of ancient castle, on the Firth of Forth, in Dalmeny parish, Lmlithgowshire.

BARNCLUITH, curious suite of old buildings and gardens, on bold bank of Avon river, between Cadzow Castle and Hamilton, Lanarkshire.

BARNHILL, eastern suburb of Glasgow. The Barony poorhouse is here, and has accommodation for 1500 inmates ; and a new hospital in connection with it was opened in 1880, and has accommodation for 300 patients.

BARNHILL, village in Blantyre parish Lanarkshire. Pop. 455.

BARNHILL, village in Monifieth parish Forfarshire. Pop. 396.

BARNHILL, seat in Kinnoul parish Perthshire.

BARNIEL, place on west side of Loch Eck, Argyleshire.

BARNKIRK, small hill in Annan parish, Dumfriesshire.

BARNOCK, place, with public school, in Avondale parish, Lanarkshire.

BARNS, a seat of the Earl of Wemyss, on the Tweed, near influx of the Manor, Peeblesshire.

BARNS, estate in Cleish parish, Kinross-shire.

BARNS, ruined mansion in Crail parish, Fife. Drummond of Hawthornden wrote here his 'Battle of the Dunghill.'


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