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Field Visit

Date November 1988

Event ID 1114069

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1114069

There are no visible remains of a castle which stood on or close to the site now occupied by Balloch farmsteading, but a number of dressed stones incorporated in the fabric of the steading may have come from it. A dovecot stood some 100m to the N (NO 262 496).

The castle is said to have been the seat of the Rollo family; 'Belouch' in the lordship of 'Alicht' is on record by 1470. Stobie (1783a) gives the name as 'Ballock' and depicts and annotates it 'Castle in ruins'.

Visited by RCAHMS (IMS) November 1988.

RCAHMS 1990

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