haggart

See also: Haggart

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Noun

haggart (plural haggarts)

1. (Ireland, dated) A farmyard or small enclosed field; a vegetable patch or kitchen garden.
   • 1827 December, Gerald Griffin, “Tales of the Munster Festivals”, in The London Magazine, volume 19, page 493:

     the very meadows in which he had assisted at harvest time in filling the load of sweet hay on the car, for the purpose of stacking in the haggart

   • 1856 'One of the rakes of Mallow' "Ireland thirty years since" The Sporting Magazine (London: Rogerson & Texford) May 1856, p.366:

     Jack escaped out of a back window which looked into the haggart, where the cows were kept every night.

   • 1879 Charles Kickham Knocknagow : or, The homes of Tipperary Chapter 7 "NORAH LAHY. THE OLD LINNET'S SONG." (Dublin : J. Duffy) 13th ed. (1887), p.50:

     Mr. Lowe remarked also the little ornamental wooden gate, the work of Mat's own hands, that led to the kitchen-garden invariably called the "haggart" in this part of the world which was fenced all round by a thick thorn hedge, with a little privet and holly intermixed here and there.