Balallan

infobox UK place
country = Scotland
latitude=58.08
longitude=-6.60
official_name=Balallan
gaelic_name= Baile Ailein
population =
constituency_westminster= Na h-Eileanan an Iar
unitary_scotland= Na h-Eileanan Siar
lieutenancy_scotland= Western Isles
constituency_scottish_parliament= Western Isles
post_town= ISLE OF LEWIS
postcode_district = HS2
postcode_area= HS
dial_code=
os_grid_reference= NB2920

Balallan (Scottish Gaelic: "Baile Ailein", sometimes spelt "Bail' Ailein", meaning "Allan's Town") has the distinction of being the longest village (4 miles measured from end to end) in Lewis (and also in northern Scotland). Straggled along the head of a long sea loch between Arivruach and Laxay, it developed due to a mixture of crofting along the loch shore and fishing. It sits at the head of Loch Erisort.

Those on the loch side were each given direct access to the loch for their boats as well as access to the moorland behind for their sheep. They also attended to their croft, given relative shelter from the elements by the high ground to the west.

The village has a police house and a post office that sells various groceries.

Just south of the village there is a cairn that stands as a memorial to the [http://www.lochslewis.org/content/view/156/36/1/0/ Deer Park Raiders] . It is one of three [http://www.en.gaelic-arts.com/successful-projects/monuments Land Struggle Cairns] to have been commissioned on the Isle of Lewis.