Township: Middleton

Map Reference: Middleton 300

Name Type: township

Meaning: Middletown, between Barrapol and Sandaig.

See Am Baile Meadhanach in Longships on the Sand.

Other Forms: Balmeanach - The map MVLA INSVLA in the Atlas of Scotland, Atlas Novus, by Joan Blaeu, 1654. These maps were largely based on work by Timothy Pont who mapped Scotland between 1583 and 1596. NLS, 123.

Balimeanach - 1679, ICA Bundle 472/194.

Balimeanoch - Tiree Rental 1747.

Balmenoch - The Turnbull Map of Tiree 1768 and accompanying survey text.

Balemeanoch - List of Inhabitants of Tiree 1776

Ballimianach - Typed List of Inhabitants of Tyree and their Age in September 1779.
Taken from an unknown publication, 1998.201.1

Balemeanoch (1785) - Argyll Estate Instructions, ed. Eric Cregeen, Scottish History Society, 1964

ONB p. 191 gives Middleton.


The English form probably dates from the building of the Glassary seaweed factory.

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Languages : Gaelic, English

Informants: OS