Balnaboth is the residue of a much larger estate passed down through the same family (the Ogilvy's) since 1470. For an index to our archives see www.glenprosen.co.uk/archive1.htm, and for a picture of a 1482 seal of James III of Scotland see www.glenprosen.co.uk/Logie_Wing.htm. During the time of the 1745 uprising, the Earl of Airlie's brother, Walter, was living at Balnaboth, and on the Earl's attainder and exile, Walter administered the family estates. Walter succeeded to the title at the beginning of the nineteenth century and gifted the lands of Clova and Glenprosen to his second son, Donald, who became the Hon. Donald Ogilvy of Clova.

Donald renovated and enlarged Balnaboth House, which at the time comprised four separate houses and over the next fifty years most of the houses now standing in this part of the glen were built, or where houses stood before, a slate roof ensured their survival. A new formal garden was laid out at Balnaboth, near which records show there to be the ruins of the original glen church, which preceded the present one in the village (not to be confused with "the Old Chapel", on the old drive to Balnaboth, which was Episcopalian). Roads were improved, the road at Buckhood being built to replace the track over the hill, a stone bridge constructed at Spott and the present driveway to Balnaboth.

An archaeological survey commissioned in 1998 found evidence of several prehistoric sites comprising hut circles, hut platforms and cairns. The circular burial cairns probably date from the 2nd millennium BC, but without further investigation, it is not possible to give accurate dates. There is much more evidence of medieval, and later settlement