BALERNO, a village, in the parish of Currie,
county of Edinburgh, 7 milts (S. \V.) from Edinburgh;
containing 303 inhabitants. This place is situated on
the Leith water, on which are some mills for the manufacture
of paper. A freestone-quarry has been worked
in the vicinity for a number of years, and many of the
buildings of the New Town of Edinburgh have been
erected with materials from it.