Balshagry, a hamlet in Govan parish, Lanarkshire, a short distance WNW of Glasgow Botanic Garden. Recent marine shells, like extant ones in the Firth of Clyde, have been found in stratified clay, in the hamlet's vicinity, at a height of not less than 80 feet above sea-level.

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