Ballatrich or Ballaterach, a farm-house in Glenmuick parish, Aberdeenshire, near the S bank of the Dee, 4½ miles E of Ballater. The place where Lord Byron spent part of his boyhood, it retains some relics of the poet, and for his sake is visited by many strangers.
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