Balloch Village

Places of historical interest

Culloden Battlefield Site

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 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

Cumberland Stone, Culloden Battlefield

The Cumberland Stone, adjacent to the Culloden Battlefield site and just outside Balloch Parish.

This huge glacial erratic boulder, approx 5 feet high and 50 feet around is associated in legend with the Duke of Cumberland at the Battle of Culloden.

Similar stones in other parts of the UK once served as pre-historic tribal boundary markers (eg Cloch Rhoderick in Strathclyde) and it is certainly too prominent to ever have been ignored.

Clava Cairns

About 1 ½ miles  from Balloch is the site of the prehistoric Clava Cairns, comprising two passage graves, a ring cairn and other features all in a beautiful setting at Balnuaran.