When did Baloan Farm take place?

Baloan Farm took place in an uncertain year, Scotland.

The victor at Baloan Farm is disputed or unrecorded in the surviving sources.

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Baloan Farm

Scotland

Era

Unknown Era

Battle Type

Pitched Battle

Location

Scotland

Status

Unregistered

The Battle

History & Significance

Baloan Farm was a pitched battle between opposing field armies, fought in Scotland. Which side prevailed is not recorded in the surviving sources, and its outcome is not conclusively established in the historical record.

The ground

The ground they fought on

The site of Baloan Farm lies on Glenfinnan Group, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is psammite and pelite.

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Monuments

The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.

Battlefields

The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.

Roman Britain

The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.

Stat Accounts

The parish Statistical Accounts of the 1790s and 1830s, describing life, work and population here.

Civil War

The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.

Geology

The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.

Local Names

What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.

Historical Maps

Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.

Literature

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Protected heritage nearby

Scheduled Monuments near Baloan Farm

Lochlait,settlement & field systems 400m N of

Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~1.5 mi

Lochlait is a post-medieval settlement and field system located 400 metres north of Lochlait in Inverness-shire, Scotland. The site comprises the remains of domestic buildings and associated agricultural land-use patterns typical of Highland settlement from the sixteenth century onwards. The monu…

Auchvaich,chambered cairn 650m W of

Scheduled monument · Neolithic · ~1.9 mi

Auchvaich is a Neolithic chambered cairn located in Inverness-shire, Scotland, situated approximately 650 metres west of the settlement from which it takes its name. Like other chambered cairns of its type, it would have served as a communal burial monument during the Neolithic period, constructe…

Castle Spynie,broch

Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~2.2 mi

Castle Spynie broch is an Iron Age tower located in Inverness-shire, Scotland, and protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland. The structure stands on bedrock formed from the Glenfinnan Group, a Neoproterozoic sequence of psammite and pelite that underlies much of the Scot…

Phoineas Hill,enclosure 900m ESE of Phoineas House

Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~2.6 mi

Phoineas Hill enclosure is a post-medieval earthwork situated 900 metres east-south-east of Phoineas House in Inverness-shire. The monument consists of an enclosed space defined by substantial banks and ditches, characteristic of field systems and stock management practices developed in Scotland…

Belladrum Home Farm,chambered cairn WNW of

Scheduled monument · Neolithic · ~2.7 mi

Belladrum Home Farm is a Neolithic chambered cairn situated in Inverness-shire in the Scottish Highlands. The monument lies on bedrock of Lower Old Red Sandstone, formed during the Early Devonian period, comprising conglomerate, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone. This underlying geology would hav…

Tom na Croiseige, stepped mound

Scheduled monument · ~2.8 mi

Tom na Croiseige is a stepped mound located in Inverness-shire, in the Scottish Highlands. The monument consists of an artificial earthwork constructed in tiers or steps, a form of settlement mound whose precise chronology and function remain subjects of archaeological study. Such mounds are foun…

Lime kiln, 250m NE of South Clunes Farm

Scheduled monument · ~1.8 miles

Achculin,depopulated township,Loch Ness

Scheduled monument · ~2.5 miles

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Baloan Farm · Canmore

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