BALLANTRAE

'Ballantrae' is a community in South Ayrshire, Scotland. The name probably comes from the Scottish Gaelic ''Baile na Tràghad'', meaning the "town by the beach".
It is best known for being the fictional setting of ''The Master of Ballantrae'' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Geologically, Ballantrae has lent its name to a subdivision of the Arenig group, which is the name applied to the lowest stage of the Ordovician System.
In June 1673 while holding a conventicle at Knockdow near Ballantrae, Alexander Peden, was captured by Major William Cockburn, and condemned by the Privy Council to four years and three months imprisonment on the Bass Rock and a further fifteen months in the Edinburgh Tolbooth.