Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Balmacarra

Balmacarra, a village in Lochalsh parish, Ross-shire, on the N side of Loch Alsh, 3 miles E by N of Kyleakin Ferry. It has an hotel, a branch of the Commercial Bank, a parish church, a Free church, and has also the head post office of Lochalsh, with money order, savings' bank, insurance, and telegraph departments.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Ross Shire ScoCnty
Place: Balmacarra

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