- Name
- Pilrig conservation area
- Neighbourhood(s)
- City Centre and Leith
- Details
- Pilrig is shown on maps as early as 1654 and is recorded as Peilrig in 1438. The name is Anglian pyll hrycg, a ridge by a stream, and Pilrig House, which was built near the centre of the original estate, stands on a ridge near the Broughton Burn. Another potential derivation of the name is from a tower (pil/peel) at the end of a field (rigg). It is also suggested that the name may have originated from an earlier building on the present site of Pilrig House as the strength and thickness of the basement walls may have been the foundations of an earlier towerhouse.
- Approved
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