I have read with interest the correspondence about Balliemore (the spelling on the modern 1:25000 OS map). I detect that some confusion may be creeping in between Balliemore which was a farming township with several tenants and the neighbouring village of Kilmichael Glassary (or Kilmichael in Glassary or of Glassary, as it is usually called before the 19th century to distinguish it from the 9 other Kilmichaels in Argyll ) which seems to have been a 'kirktoun' - one of the many old villages in Scotland which grew from medieval times onwards round a parish church. It was a centre for a number of activities in Argyll in the 18th century and earlier and the courts frequently sat there. The minister of the very large parish of Glassary lived there, there weas a parish school there, and there is evidence of merchants (a shop?) there and of a doctor living there. There was also a court officer permanently based there who acted as a kind of policeman on occasion. Balliemore was sim! ply a farm with several tenants and a mill. In the 17th and 18th centuries people are described as being 'in Balliemore' or 'in Kilmichael' and there is no crossover. The lands of both Balliemore and Kilmichael belonged for most of the 18th century to the Campbells of Auchenbreck, thereafter passing into the hands of the Stewarts of Ascog in Bute. The place is usually called Ballimore Kilmichael because there was another Ballimore in the same parish a few miles away to the east of Lochgilphead which was often known as Ballimore Aird. (To my knowledge there are 8 Ballimores on the Argyll mainland - I shall be delighted if someone tells me that I have not noticed others.) I would also point out that these places are not dealt with in the late Allan Begg's book because they were not and are not deserted. The other complcation in this matter is the existence of the village/hamlet which grew up on the main road from Lochgilphead to Oban at Bridgend.? I suspect that these houses were on the lands of Balliemore and may be the reason for the quoted large number of inhabitants. I have not come across any references to this site as a village in any of my work on the documents of 17th and 18th century Argyll and would guess that it is probably a place which grew in the 19th century. -----Original Message----- From: sct-argyll-request@rootsweb.com To: sct-argyll@rootsweb.com Sent: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 8:01 Subject: SCT-ARGYLL Digest, Vol 3, Issue 173 Today's Topics: 1. Balimore, Kilmichael (Jean C. MacLeod) 2. Re: Balimore, Kilmichael (Jill) 3. Balimore, Kilmichael (Jean C. MacLeod) 4. Re: Balimore, Kilmichael (Jill) 5. McPherson Family (sandra) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ****************************************** ________________________________________________________________________ AOL Email goes Mobile! You can now read your AOL Emails whilst on the move. Sign up for a free AOL Email account with unlimited storage today.