Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Ballat

Ballat, a bog in Drymen parish, Stirlingshire, on the watershed between the river systems of the Forth and the Clyde, 3 miles NNE of Drymen village. It is the lowest ground on the summit-level between the E and W coasts of Scotland, excepting Dullater Bog, on the Forth and Clyde Canal; its elevation is 222 feet above the level of the sea.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a bog"   (ADL Feature Type: "wetlands")
Administrative units: Drymen ScoP       Stirlingshire ScoCnty

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