Holyrood (;
Scottish Gaelic: Taigh an Ròid) is an area in
Edinburgh, the capital of
Scotland. Lying east of the city centre, at the end of the
Royal Mile, Holyrood was once in the separate
burgh of
Canongate before the expansion of Edinburgh in 1856. It had several breweries and a flint glassworks in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The westerly parts of Holyrood, excluding
Holyrood Park, are roughly synonymous with the
Canongate and
Dumbiedykes areas.