Dear List Balimore Kilmichael Enquiry I am interested in Frank's comments regarding Kilmichael Glassary in Digest, Vol 3, Issue 173. I'd like to add a few points. Firstly, I think it's a pity ArgyllRootsweb correspondence is not always shown in its entirety, particularly if the topics under discussion are of general interest. This happens quite a lot. How can you possibly understand, let alone participate, if you only get some of the information? Messages should be sent directly to the website, not to personal email addresses. Frank correctly identifies confusion between the farming township of Balimore and the village of Kilmichael Glassary. I think there is also confusion over the term 'baile-mor'. Baile, we know, is defined as a town, but the trouble starts with that very definition. Baile is an altogether much more fluid term, ranging from the tiniest hamlet to the highly populated town, depending on the context. Baile can even mean "the domestic unit"; 'aig baile' is Gaelic for 'at home'. Dictionaries correctly define baile -mor as a city, or large town - Glasgow would be described thus, but so would Oban and Lochgilphead. Obviously baile-mor is going to be larger than baile, but the application has to be placed within the context of olden-days rural Argyll. Balimore is put in context by Kilmichael which distinguishes it from other Argyll Balimores but Kilmichael Glassary was the principal village in the glen. KG was a settlement of antiquity and status where large important Fairs and Cattle Trysts were held. As Frank says, there is another Balliemore (sic) in Glassary at Aird, near Castleton, and there is Balimore, South Knapdale. I would be very interested to know where the other mainland Argyll Balimores are to be found. May I add that the spelling of Balimore/Baliemore/Ballimore is not important. There was a Cattle Stance beside Kilmichael Inn at present-day Bridgend. On modern maps the cattle stance is near the Inn and designated, (horror of horrors) "baile-mor" . Bridgend, once on Balimore lands, is the location of the old Kilmichael Inn where there was a blacksmith and shoemaker, but little else. The very English, non- Gaelic name Bridgend suggests a "new" village which probably grew during the 19th century. Many new houses have been built at Bridgend in the last 30 years. le meas Jean MacLeod