Ballachu'lish. a village of Argyllshire, on the south shore of salt-water Loch Leven, miles S. of Fort-William. Its celebrated quarries of blue roofing clay-slate, commenced about 1760, employ some 600 men. The annual production amounts in a busy year to 17,000,000 roofing-slates, weighing about 30,000 tons. Pop. of the village (1881) 1019; (1891) 1045.
Ballachu'lish.
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 680
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