The Tithe Composition book indicates that the whole quarterland was technically 'occupied 'by E M Gawne in 1840, but of course he was the wealthiest man on the Island and lived in great style at Kentraugh in the Parish of Rushen. He also acquired Ballacooil and apparently used to go over to Dalby to do some Beagling once a year, which involved hunting hares, one guesses.

Looking at the Tithe plan for Balladha, in addition to the farmhouse, where Gawne's manager or factor would live, there were three or four cottages clustered on the steep road leading down from Dalby village towards the Lhagg. The census reports should show their occupancy.Balladha was what I classify as a "composite" quarterland. It did stretch from the shore to the mountain lands, but to get there it had been cobbled together of sections chopped out of various pre-existing field systems, and was not an organic unit of ancient settlement site and original pertaining fields. Despite this it was a quarterland, implying that this assembly took place back in the medieval period.

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