Corehouse, an estate, with a mansion, and a ruined baronial fortalice, in the NE of Lesmahagow parish, Lanarkshire, 2½ miles S of Lanark. A ` neat, white, lady-like house,' according to Dorothy Wordsworth, the mansion crowns a cliff, at the left side of the river Clyde, a little below Corra Linn, from which it is almost hidden by lofty trees. It was the seat of the late George Cranstoun, who was raised to the bench as Lord Corehouse in l826; its present owner, Chs. Edw. Harris Edmonstoune-Cranstoun, Esq. (b. 1841; suc. 1869), holds 2860 acres in the shire, valued at £1893 per annum. The ruins of Corra Castle, on the verge of the weather-worn Old Red sandstone cliff immediately above the linn, so overhangs the surging river sweeping on to the fall, as, during spates, to nod and vibrate from base to summit. Both the estate of Corehouse and the fall of Corra Linn are said to have been named from Cora, a shadowy Caledonian princess, who leaped on horseback over the cliff into the cataract. Not the old castle only, but the very cliff above and about and below the linn, trembles from concussion of high floods. As Wordsworth sings:-

Lord of the vale! astounding Flood !
The dullest leaf in this thick wood
Quakes-conscious of thy power;
The caves reply with hollow moan,
And vibrates to its central stone
Yon time-cemented Tower.'

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)