Balulive

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Balulive (also Balule or Balulve , Scottish Gaelic Baile Uilbh , named after the landowner John Ulive / Ian Uilbh ) is a deserted town on the Scottish Hebridean island of Islay . Balulive was in the northeast of the island about 2.5 kilometers northwest of the Port Askaig ferry terminal and about twelve kilometers northeast of Bowmore , the main town on the island. The nearest town was Mulreesh , located to the south and now also uninhabited . The next village that is still inhabited today is Keills, 1.5 km to the south-east . Balulive was accessible via a road that led north from today's A846 via Mulreesh and Balulive and finally ends in Bunnahabhain on the east coast. At the census of 1841, there were 67 people in Mulreesh. Ten years later the population had already dropped to 37 people. Today there is still an abandoned farm in Balulive. Some of the foundations of other buildings are still preserved or there are no more visible traces.

Surroundings

The head of a Stone Age flint ax was discovered southwest of Balulive Farm in 1920. The find was given to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland . 500m south are the earth-covered foundations of a chapel called Cill Eileagain . The 5.5 m × 3 m interior of the building was surrounded by one meter thick walls. The chapel was located in the middle of a cemetery on which cross slabs were found dating from the 9th to 11th centuries. Century to be dated. A cross-decorated stone stylistically resembles cross plates, as they were made on Iona in the 10th century and is exhibited in the Museum of Islay Life in Port Charlotte . Other cross plates bear dates from the 14th and later centuries.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jacob King and Michelle Cotter: Gaelic in the Landscape Place-names in Islay and Jura, Scottish Natural Heritage Design and Publications Battleby Redgorton
  2. ↑ Scotland Census 1841
  3. ↑ Scotland Census 1851
  4. ↑ Entry on Balulive  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  5. ↑ Entry on Balulive  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  6. ↑ Eileagain entry on Balulive  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

Coordinates: 55 ° 51 ′ 11 "  N , 6 ° 8 ′ 47"  W.