Balmacara

Balmacara
Scottish Gaelic: *Balle Mac Ara*
Balmacara Scottish Gaelic: Balle Mac Ara;
	Balmacara Location within the Ross and Cromarty area
OS grid reference	NG816272
Council area	Highland;
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Postcode district	IV40 8
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
UK Parliament	Ross, Skye and Lochaber;
Scottish Parliament	Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch;

Balmacara (Scottish Gaelic: Baile MacRath) is a scattered village on the north shore of Loch Alsh near Kyle of Lochalsh, Ross-shire, Highland and is in the Scottish council area of the Highland, Scotland.[1] In 1946, Lady Hamilton, bequeathed the 2,750-hectare (6,800-acre) Balmacara crofting estate to the people of Scotland, by donating it to the National Trust for Scotland. In 1954 the nearby Lochalsh House was conveyed to the Trust.[2]

The Shinty club, Kinlochshiel play in the adjacent hamlet of Kirkton.

References

Microsoft; Nokia (1 April 2017). "Balmacara" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
"Balmacara". The Editors of The Gazetteer for Scotland. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 21 November 2017.

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