Balmacara Scottish Gaelic: Baile Mac Ara
Balmacara Location within the Ross and Cromarty area
OS grid reference	NG816272
Council area	Highland
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Postcode district	IV40 8
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
UK Parliament	Ross, Skye and Lochaber
Scottish Parliament	Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch
List of places UK Scotland 57°17′34″N 5°38′34″W / 57.2929°N 5.6429°W / 57.2929; -5.6429

Balmacara (Scottish Gaelic: Baile Mac Ara) is a scattered village on the north shore of Loch Alsh near Kyle of Lochalsh, Ross-shire, Highland and is in the Scottish council area of the Highland, Scotland.^[1] In 1946, Lady Hamilton, bequeathed the 2,750-hectare (6,800-acre) Balmacara crofting estate to the people of Scotland, by donating it to the National Trust for Scotland. In 1954 the nearby Lochalsh House was conveyed to the Trust.^[2]

The Shinty club, Kinlochshiel play in the adjacent hamlet of Rearig.