Ballantrae Bay
Ballantrae is a community in Carrick, South Ayrshire, Scotland. The name probably comes from the Scottish Gaelic Baile na Tràgha, meaning the "town by the beach". Ballantrae has a Primary school. The beach consists of shingle and sand and offers views of Ailsa Craig, the Arran and Kintyre.
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. James Mackay, 1st Earl of Inchcape of Strathnaver, was the owner of Glenapp Castle on the eponymous estate and flowering shrubs spell out her name on the opposite side of the glen. His daughter, Elsie Mackay, perished in an attempt to become the first female transatlantic aviator. She is commemorated by a stained glass window in the chancel of the church at Ballantrae.
The town is the setting for the novel The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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.
Coordinates: 55°06′01″N 5°00′17″W / 55.10028°N 5.00472°W
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