Balone, a large old castellated building in Tarbat parish, Ross-shire, said to have been erected by the Earls of Ross. It was inhabited by the Earls of Cromarty, and by the Mackenzies of Ardloch-Assynt; but, though still almost entire, it has been deserted since about 1640.
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