When Scotland was united in subsequent centuries, Inverness-shire formed part of the province of Moray. The county came under the control of a succession of landowning dynasties during the Middle Ages, including the MacIntoshes, the Frasers, the Chisholms, and the Grants.. During the 15th and 16th centuries, however, the Stuart kings used the influence of the chiefs in the growing clan system to exert control over Inverness-shire. What is now Balloch fell into the parishes or areas of Inverness, and Pettie.
Some of the lands (of Pettie) long formed part of the territories erected into the successive earldoms of Moray; other portions seem to have belonged to the Mackintosh and Kilravock families at a very early period, and to have been subsequently held under the earls. In 1281, the Earl of Ross, having plundered the churches of Petyn and Bracholy, expiated his offence by a grant to the see of Elgin, of the lands of Cattepol and Pitkanny.
At the battle of Clachnaharry, the Mackintoshes of Moy Castle levied the men of Pettie to aid them in the pursuit of Munro of Fowlis. In 1368, William, the seventh lord Mackintosh, had his residence here, at Connage; and after the earldom of Moray was annexed to the crown, in 1455, the barony of Pettie appears to have been held by the laird of Findlater for some time under the crown, and subsequently under the Earl of Moray, the title having been revived.
From 1495 the Earl of Huntly possessed Connage till the birth of James V., on which occasion the barony of Pettie was given to Sir William Ogilvie, of Banff, whose wife was the first to announce to James IV. the birth of the prince; and Sir William resided in the castle till it was besieged and burnt by the clan Chattan, who slew his son and eight men who were found in it.
1509 Charter includes Cullernie, and poss Balloch?
Charter: confirmation of a charter to William Ogilvy of Strathdearn and Alison Rule
James, by the grace of God king of Scots, to all good men of all his land, clergy and laymen, greeting. Know that we have given, granted and alienated in feu ferme, and by the tenor of our present charter confirm in perpetuity, to William Ogilvy of Strathdearn and Alison Rule, his wife, and whichever of them lives the longer, in joint infeftment, all and sundry our lands underwritten, namely the lands of the barony of Strathdearn, the lands and towns contained below,
………….; and all and sundry the lands of Petty and Brackley, particularly these lands and towns contained as follows, namely Flemington, worth annually £6 13s 4d, with a mart and a mutton;† Easter Brackley, worth annually £6 13s 4[d], with a mart and a mutton; Wester Brackley, worth annually £6 13s 4d, with a mart and a mutton; the brew-house of Brackley, worth annually 20s; Nether Coul, worth annually 40s, with a quarter mart and a quarter mutton; Mid Coul, worth annually £3 6s 8d, with half a mart and [half a] mutton; Over Coul, worth annually 40s, with a quarter mart and a quarter mutton; Hullirhirst, worth annually £3 13s 4d, with a mart and a mutton; Scoltauch, worth annually £6 13s 4d, with a mart and a mutton; the brew-house of the same, worth annually 26s 8d; Termyt, worth annually £3 6s 8d, with half a mart and half a mutton; Balleowdoch, worth annually £3 6s 8d, with a quarter mart and a quarter mutton; Balnacreif† and Cullernie, worth annually £13 6s 8d, with two marts and two muttons
……. At Edinburgh, on 8 May 1509
Full record from Univ of St Andrews records of the Scottish Parliaments pre-1707
Balleowdoch ? is this a reference to Balloch
Note appended….. Balnacreif - Perhaps Balmachree, directly east from Upper Cullernie
1531
The district of Petty, which had been held of the Earl of Moray in lease, by the Mackintoshes, having been given by him to the Ogilvies, the Mackintoshes attacked Hall Hill, in Petty, the residence of Ogilvy, Laird of Strathern, and killed 24 of his followers. For this outrage, the Earl of Moray quartered the leader of the Mackintoshes, and hanged 200 of his followers in one day.
1592 George, Earl of Huntly, invaded the lands of the Clan Chattan, in consequence of their having joined his rival the Earl of Moray. He also spuilzied the baronry of Petty.
pre-1700
Original cottages on Cherry Park are thought to be 350 years old
post 1700
A fictional account of the Jacobite rising of 1715 and of the period around the battle of Culloden - full text version
1746 Battle of Culloden
Balloch lies adjacent to the site of the Battle of Culloden, fought in 1746. This is a battlefield site of international importance and a major visitor attraction throughout the year.
The current parish of Balloch is right next to the Culloden Battlefield site and must have witnessed the armies and then those fleeing the battle.
Quote…..The next road, diverging to the right, will conduct in a straight line to the west end of the small village of Balloch of Culloden. From the east end of the village it ascends the face of the ridge, passing by and by through a young fir plantation, and at the top through a belt of older planting.
Having surmounted the ascent and proceeded a few hundred yards, the road strikes across the Moor, running through some young fir and larch plantations emerges on the district-road from Inverness after having crossed a track which, it may be observed is the remains of a road made by Lord Lovat from Dalcross Castle to his property in Stratherrick.
This latter was the only roadway at the time of the battle through the Moor, which was then, too, quite bare, though with a number of cottars' huts scattered over it.
from www.queenofscots.co.uk/culloden
1780
Culloden House built on the site of the earlier Culloden House with its Jacobite connections. ‘Doocot’ in Culloden built at a similar period.