JOCK'S-LODGE, a village, in the parish of South-Leith,
county of Edinburgh, 1| mile (E. by S.) from
Edinburgh; containing 449 inhabitants. This is a considerable,
though scattered, village, situated on the southern
border of the parish, and on the road from Edinburgh
to Portobello and Musselburgh. It is said by
some to have had its eccentric name from that of a beggar
who, in the eighteenth century, inhabited a small
tenement on the spot; but it appears, on better authority,
that the village was called Jock's Lodge in Cromwell's
time. The place is opposite to Piershill cavalry
barracks, which were built in 1/93, and are named from
Colonel Piers, who commanded a regiment stationed at
Edinburgh in the reign of George II., and who either
erected or rented a villa on the height of a rising ground
overlooking Restalrig, now occupied by the officers'
apartments, and called Piershill. On the right hand of
the village are many neat residences.