Balintraid ( gd, Baile na Tràghad) is an industrial settlement, which was built largely in the 1970s with the growth of the
North Sea oil industry in
Scotland, lies on the north east corner of
Nigg Bay
Nigg Bay ( gd, Camas Neig) is a large, relatively shallow sandy bay, consisting of mudflats, saltmarsh and wet grassland, located on the north east coast of the Cromarty Firth, east of Invergordon, in the district of Ross and Cromarty and in th ...
, in the
Cromarty Firth in
Ross-shire,
Scottish Highlands and is in the
Scottish
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*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
council area of
Highland
Highlands or uplands are areas of high elevation such as a mountainous region, elevated mountainous plateau or high hills. Generally speaking, upland (or uplands) refers to ranges of hills, typically from up to while highland (or highlands) is ...
.
Balintraid pier - probably the oldest pier on the Cromarty Firth, was built by
Thomas Telford in 1824.
The village of
Invergordon lies less than 1 miles to the west, with the village of
Barbaraville
Barbaraville ( gd, An Cladach) is a small settlement on the north shore of Nigg Bay in the Cromarty Firth in the Highland (council area), Highland council area of Scotland. Housing dates from 1820 on when local people were allowed to build on p ...
1 mile to the west.
References
Populated places in Ross and Cromarty
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