Balfron Table

Balfron

Edgar(1745) is the map in Nimmo’s Stirlingshire (1777) which was based on W. Edgar’s survey of 1745.

Name Value Date Grid Ref Map Sources Other forms, comments etc
           
Ballindalloch

(estate)

40m 1666     Stirling Retours (241) 1666 gives 40m Ballindalloch comprehending the ‘terras dominicales’ (Mains) of Ballindalloch, Little Ballindalloch, Keirhill, Polgairis, Kilfossets, Ibert, Bent & Mullannacleirich. Mains is marked by Blaeu.
Ballindalloch

Westirballandach

Nether Ballindalloch

Little Ballindalloch

 

5m

5m

 

1468

1620

1666

NS 5488 Pont(32)

Blaeu(Lennox)

RHP 1866/1

 

2½m Baddurdalloch-Westir in RMS IV (747) 1552-3

Stirling Retours (100) 1620

Stirling Retours (241) 1666

Keirhill     NS 5388 Blaeu(Lennox)  
Kilfasset 10m 1468 NS 5588 Blaeu(Lennox) Kilfasanys (1468). 5m for 2 Kilfassets in 1552-3. Blaeu also specifies 2 Kilfassets. See also under Ballindalloch below.
Bent       Blaeu(Lennox) Just west of 2 Kilfassets
Balfron £10 (15m) 1698 NS 5488 Blaeu(Lennox)

Edgar(1745)

K. of Bafron (Blaeu).

Balfron + ‘terris ecclesiasticis vocatis Ibert’ (ecclesiastical lands called Ibert) in Stirling Retours (338) 1698.

Ibert     NS 542893

 

RHP 15926 ?

Grassom(1817)

 

Stirling Retours (241) 1666 – part of Ballindalloch estate.

‘Terris ecclesiasticis vocatis Ibert’ (ecclesiastical lands called Ibert) – with Balfron – in Stirling Retours (338) 1698. Grassom (1817) marks Ibert where OS(1861-3) puts Little Camoquhill.

Also GD39/1/316 & 39/5/140 1671.

Spital     NS 544897 Roy(GM26)

Grassom(1817)

OS(1861-3)

OS 6″ 1st Series Stirlingshire Sheet XV.

McNiven pp 32-3 claims = ‘of Camquhall’, Gracie p 49.

In L.R. Timperley, A directory of Landownership in Scotland c. 1770, p 323, the smallest property listed is Gallbreath Spittal.

(I am assuming there was only one Spittal in Balfron).

Mollinclerich   1666 NS 545894 OS(1861-3) Stirling Retours (241) 1666.

OS 6″ 1st Series, Stirlingshire Sheet XV, 1861-3.

Forest of Balfron 40s (3m) 1630     Guthrie Smith, Strathendrick, pp 23-4
Cremannan (estate) 20m 1666     See below.
Cremannan (farm) 5m? 1591 NS 5489 Edgar(1745)

RHP 1866/1

Cramenan is NNE of Balfren K. in Edgar.

See below.

Park 2m 1552-3 NS 550912 Grassom(1817)

OS(1861-3)

‘2m parce lie Parke de Crannynnane cum lie Scheane’ in RMS IV (747) 1552-3. OS 6″ 1st Series Stirlingshire Sheet XV.
Shian   1552-3 NS 5589 Blaeu(Lennox)

RHP 1866/1

‘the Shien’ Roy(GM26). See Park above.
Cairnhall     NS 5589 RHP 1866/1  
Tombrake     NS 5490 Blaeu(Lennox)

Grassom(1817)

Stirling Retours (100) 1620 refers to Cumbreck (=Tombrake?) in barony of Ballindalloch. Dumbreck in Grassom.
Camkell/Camokell ⅛ land       Cartularium de Levenax pp 31-2 ‘in which Rachorkane is situated, and which borders on the the land of Balinodalach’ (early 14th century). See below under Camoquhill.
Meikle Camoquhill

Little Camoquhill

 

Wester Camoquhill

Camoquhill Douglas

Camoquhill Logan

 

 

 

26s 8d (2m)

 

2½m

 

 

 

1613

 

1586

NS 5289

NS 542893

 

NS 5389

NS 5389

Blaeu(Lennox)

OS(1861-3)

Camochals (Blaeu). See below.

OS 6″ 1st Series Stirlingshire Sheet XV. E of Camoquhill Douglas. But see Ibert above.

Retours (Stirling) (377) 1613.

 

GD86/279.  =Little Camoquhill (Stirling Retours (241) 1666).

Gaisland 2m 1552-3 NS 5390 Grassom(1817) See below under Cremannan (estate).
Edinbellie £5 1595 NS 5789 Edgar(1745)

Grassom(1817)

E & W in GD430/147 1595. This, along with properties in Drymen, was part of the Napier-Edinbellie estate (see table under Drymen).
Ballochearn £5 1595 NS 5888 Blaeu(Lennox) GD430/147 1595. This, along with properties in Drymen, was part of the Napier-Edinbellie estate (see table under Drymen).
Thomdarroch 5m 1595     5m Thomdarroch in GD430/147 1595. I have not managed to locate this but it was probably in Balfron, possibly in Drymen. I think it was different to the Tomdarroch in Fintry parish.

See below.

Balgair

Easter Balgair

£10 (15m)

£5

1468

1662

NS 603885 Blaeu(Lennox)

OS(1861-3)

Polgaris(1505). RMS IV (747) 1552-3 lists 2½m Wester Bawgar & 5m Eister Bawgar. This makes a total of £5 (7½m) which is half what was given in 1468. However GD220/1/E/2/3/2 1662 gives £5 Easter Balgair. OS 6″ 1st Series Stirlingshire Sheet XV.
Overglinns (to N)

Nether Glinns (to S)

Cummings Glins

    NS 6088

NS 6088

c. NS 604885

 

Blaeu(Lennox)

OS(1861-3)

Glens is marked twice in Blaeu. ‘Terris de Glennis alias Cunisglene’ Stirling Retours (123) 1627, (149) 1634, (187) 1647, (237) 1665. OS 6″ 1st Series Stirlingshire Sheet XV.

See below.

Dalhilloch 40s (3m) 1513 NS 624904 Grassom(1817)

OS(1861-3)

2 settlements in Grassom. GD8/43A 1513, GD8/44 1513.

OS 6″ 1st Series Stirlingshire Sheet XV.

(Mains of) Glinn £10 1577 NS 6391 Roy(GM26) Glyn (1479, 1483), The Glyn (1510, 1535, 1545). £8 (1622).

See below.

Colquhounes-glenes

Colquhoun &

Boydis-Glennis

Colquhoune-Glens

£10

£10

 

£10

1633

1636

 

1674

    RMS VIII (2239) 1633.

RMS IX (489) 1636

 

Owned by John Colquhoun of Glens, Stirling Retours (268) 1674.

Easter Glinns

W. Glinn

    NS 6491/6591 Edgar(1745)

Edgar(1745)

 
           
Total 96½m        

 

 

Ballindalloch

Cartularium de Levenax pp 67-68, Malcolm Flemyng, earl of Wigton granted Andrew de Cunninghame:

totas terras nostras de Kilfassane et de Ballindallach infra comitatum de Levenax

(all our lands of Kilfassane [Kilfasset] and Ballindallach in the earldom of Lennox).

For estate see separate table.

 

Cremannan (estate) (See separate table)

 

Cremannan (farm)

GD220/1/E/2/3/7 1591 refers to 5m Cremannan lying in the parish of Luss. This makes identification with the Cremannan in Balfron difficult. There was a place with a very similar name in the parish of Buchanan which did belong to Luss in 1591 but I think it was probably much too small to be worth 5m. However in the charter from Cartularium de Levenax pp 67-68 given above under Ballindalloch it is stated that Kilfasset & Ballindalloch had formerly belonged to Duncan of Luss. Possibly part of Balfron was reckoned as Luss during his family’s ownership.

 

Camoquhill

Cartularium de Levenax pp 31-32, Malcolm, earl of Lennox to Patrick Galbraith:

illam dimidiam quartariam terre que vocatur Camkell, in qua Rachorkane est, intus et propinquius terre de Balinodalach adjacentem

further on called Camokell

(that half quarterland (i.e. eighthland) called Camkell, in which Rachorkane is, within and lying next to Balinodalach)

This may imply that Camoquhill was once reckoned part of Ballindalloch. Ballindalloch was certainly an estate name but possibly it was also the name of an arachor.

 

Thomdarroch

This is listed as part of the Napier-Edinbellie estate in GD430/87 1490; GD430/97/1 1495; GD430/98 1495; GD430/101/1 1509; GD430/107 1512; GD430/136 1573; GD430/147 1595. I have argued that this is different to the Tomdarroch in Fintry but what makes things more complicated is that GD430/116 1543 and GD430/131 1563 refer to Easter Thomdarroch and the Galbraiths. I have assumed Thomdarroch is different to Tombrake.

 

Overglinns/Nether Glinns/Cummings Glins

I have difficulty in distinguishing between this property and Glinn proper. The latter seems to have belonged to the Colquhouns but Cawnysglyn was granted to the Edmonstones in RMS IV (1838) 1568-9. (Although GD220/2/1/64 1473, which is printed in Fraser, Lennox, II pp 94-6, only calls it ‘the Glyn’). Cunisglene belonged to Livingston of Kilsyth in Stirling Retours (123) 1627, (149) 1634, (187) 1647.

 

Glinn

Glinn or Glyn is confusing because, even as the crow flies, over three miles lie between Nether Glinns in NS 6088 and Easter Glinns in NS 6491/6591. In early times the name Glyn probably encompassed the glen of the Lernock, a tributary of the Endrick. Over time it decomposed into a number of different farms. I think Cawnysglyn probably refers to what are now Overglinns and Nether Glinns while Mains and Easter are the ‘outer part’ given below.

 

Cartularium de Levenax p 24,  Malcolm earl of Lennox to Malcolm of Luss:

dimidiam carucatam terre et dimidiam quartariam terre in exteriori parte de Glyne, jacentes inter terram et metas de Syf et Lekych … dictam dimidiam carucatam et dimidiam quartariam terre de Glyne

(half a carucate and an eighthland in the outer part of Glyne, lying between the boundaries of Syf and Lekych … the said half-carucate and eighthland of Glyne).

This is clearly Glinn and Lekych is Leckie in East Stirlingshire. Where is Syf? The only suggestion I can make is Kilsyth. In early documents (e.g. Fraser, Lennox, II, No 202, p 401, 10/8/1217) Kilsyth is spelled Kelnasydhe. The first element is unlikely to be Kil (<Sc. G. cille church) since the church of Kilsyth is consistently called Moniabrocd (RRS IV Pt 1 No 7 pp 60-61, 1251) or similar. It might be from coille (wood) as in Kiltrochan in Balfron parish. The middle element ‘na’ is presumably for ‘of the’ leaving us with ‘sydhe’ as the final element. I wonder if Syf and Sydhe are the same and perhaps from Sc. G. sithean little hill or fairy hill – perhaps some sort of pre-Christian sacred site. The northern boundary of the parish of Kilsyth was the River Carron while Leckie is near the River Forth. Leckie was once an important site and it is not completely improbable that a property on the north side of the Fintry hills could be said to be between Kilsyth and Leckie. However this explanation leaves me less than convinced.

 

A half carucate would match well with the £10 valuation of Glinn and it may be that the eighthland in the ‘exteriori parte de Glyne’  refers to Easter Glinns although I cannot show that this was a 50s unit.

 

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