Sc. Also lerroch. [Gael. làrach site of a building, habitation. = OIrish láthrach (mod. Ir. laithreach), f. OCeltic *lā to extend.] The site of a building or habitation.
1705. Court Bk. Barony of Urie (1892), 113. [That] ilke tennant keepe ther owen larache.
a. 1774. Fergusson, Farmer’s Ingle, Poems (1845), 38. In its auld lerroch yet the deas remains.
1794. Statist. Acc. Scot., XII. 273, note. Amidst the various changes … of … proprietors they have continued in the same possession, and on the self-same Larach.
