Balruddery, an estate, with a handsome modern mansion, in Liff and Benvie parish, Forfarshire, 6½ miles W by N of Dundee. The mansion, on a south-eastward slope, commands an extensive view over the Firth of Tay; the estate contains romantic, finely-wooded dells, and is notable both for rare indigenons plants and for the exhumation of interesting fossils.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)