Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Ballatrich or Ballaterach

Ballatrich or Ballaterach, a farm-house in Glenmuick parish, Aberdeenshire, near the S bank of the Dee, 4½ miles E of Ballater. The place where Lord Byron spent part of his boyhood, it retains some relics of the poet, and for his sake is visited by many strangers.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a farm-house"   (ADL Feature Type: "buildings")
Administrative units: Glenmuick Tullich and Glencairn ScoP       Aberdeenshire ScoCnty
Place names: BALLATERACH     |     BALLATRICH     |     BALLATRICH OR BALLATERACH

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