. The parish of Strathblane and its inhabitants from early times : a chapter in Lennox history. rathblane, but this is mere conjecture, for this deed may havebeen signed at the church or somewhere else in the parish. It is verypossible, indeed, that the old Castle or house of Ballagan was not built at alltill Walter Stirling got the lands in 1522, and the old stone with the Len-nox saltire and roses on it may have been placed in the wall of his newhouse in token of the descent he possessed from the old Earls, The houseof Ballagan, as the name implies, is built in a sheltered or lown place onth
. The parish of Strathblane and its inhabitants from early times : a chapter in Lennox history. rathblane, but this is mere conjecture, for this deed may havebeen signed at the church or somewhere else in the parish. It is verypossible, indeed, that the old Castle or house of Ballagan was not built at alltill Walter Stirling got the lands in 1522, and the old stone with the Len-nox saltire and roses on it may have been placed in the wall of his newhouse in token of the descent he possessed from the old Earls, The houseof Ballagan, as the name implies, is built in a sheltered or lown place onthe banks of the Blane, just below the splendid falls known as the Spoutof Ballagan. THE STIRLINGS OF BALLAGAN. From the time Ballagan was first separated from the Kirklands of Strath-blane in 1522 till 1760, when it was sold by James Stirling, it remained inthe possession of a branch of the Craigbarnet family. ^ Nimmos Stirlingshire, p. 272. ^ The far-spreading branches of this tree formed the coach-house of the old lairds of Ballagan. ^ Lennox Castle Writs. THE KIRKLANDS OF STRATHBLANE. 151. William Stirling, first of Glorat, and Walter Stirling, first of Ballagan, werebrothers, sons of Sir John Stirling, third of Craigbarnet;and their wives, Mariota Brisbane, lady of Glorat, andEufame Brisbane, lady of Ballagan, were very probablysisters. Four years after William got Kirklands ^ he con-veyed to Walter and his spouse, Eufame Brisbane, thewest half of the lands of Ballagan and the Hill of Dun-glass for a certain yearly payment in money and barley,and Ballagan thus became for the first time a separateestate. The brothers had afterwards another transaction, seal of walter STIRLING OF BALLAGAN. but why it was required, or when it took place, is not 1535. known, by which Walter granted a reversion of the Kirklands of Strathblane to his derrest broder germane William Stryuelyng of Glorat. On the 25th October, 1535, Walter Stirling of Ballagan, as curator ofAndrew Cunynghame, son
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