Haggart - What does it mean?
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(Irish, dated) a farmyard or small enclosed field; a vegetable patch or kitchen garden
*1827 Gerald Griffin "
*: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' "
*:Jack escaped out of a back window which looked into the haggart , where the cows were kept every night.
*1879 Charles Kickham
*: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.
haggart
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(en noun)Tales of the Munster Festivals" The London Magazine , December 1827; Vol.19, p.493:
Ireland thirty years since" The Sporting Magazine (London: Rogerson & Texford) May 1856, p.366:
Knocknagow : or, The homes of TipperaryChapter 7 "NORAH LAHY. THE OLD LINNET'S SONG." (Dublin : J. Duffy) 13th ed. (1887), p.50:
