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Habitational name from a place near Galashiels in the Scottish Borders, so named from British words that were ancestors of Welsh moel ‘bare, barren’ + rhos ‘moor, heath’.

The Breton and Irish equivalents of the second element mean ‘promontory’, and this may also have been the sense here.

Also coincides with the vocabulary word for "a honey of roses".