From St Marks crossroads on the road towards the Braaid - Ballakew is a farm quite close to the crossroads.
I am reading this with interest as Martha Taggart [dau of William Taggart and Elinor Bridson] bap 3 Apr 1754 is my ggg grandmother.
And Frances Sarah Bell who wed Robert Shimmin was from Ballakew [presume a servant] was another of my ancestors.