Ballygrant
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 Houses at the north side of Ballygrant | |
  Ballygrant Location withinArgyll and Bute | |
| OS grid reference | NR395662 |
| Council area | |
| Lieutenancy area | |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | ISLE OF ISLAY |
| Postcode district | PA45 |
| Dialling code | 01496 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| UK Parliament | |
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| 55°49′N6°10′W / 55.82°N 6.16°W /55.82; -6.16 | |
Ballygrant (Scottish Gaelic:Baile a' Ghràna) is a small village on theInner Hebrides island ofIslay of the western coast ofScotland. The village is within the parish of Killarow and Kilmeny.[1]
Ballygrant (Baile a' Ghràna) is the longest established village on Islay, pre-dating theclearance and distillery villages on the coast, and nearby place names suggest connections toViking times.
In the early 1870s, Kirkman Finlay, the new owner of theDunlossit Estate pulled down the old thatched huts and built new cottages for his tenants which he let at nominal rents.[2] He also re-opened the Lead Mines in the village under the superintendence of Mr Vircoe, a cornish mining engineer.
Ballygrant means 'the town of the grain'[3] and the water-powered mill, now demolished, was turning oats into meal until the early 20th century. Later the water wheel powered a sawmill until electricity took over in the late 1960s.The oldest part of the village, where Craigard House stands, is at the junction of theA846 road, connectingPort Askaig andPort Ellen, and the Glen road.
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