Meanings
plural brooghs
- chiefly Isle of ManA steep bank or grassy cliff.
The new Trust property also includes the interesting small prehistoric stone circle on the nearby brooghs and is also of considerable botanical interest. The cliff top shows a fine example of the hummock heath produced by a combination of […]
1970, Manx Museum and National Trust, The Journal of the Manx Museum, volume 7, issues 86-87, page 1621 more example
The local place-name 'Chapel Gate' — 'the road to the Chapel' — is of some antiquity (J. J. Kneen, Place-Names, I, p. 22) and applies particularly to the steep pathway down the brooghs to the keeill-site and well at the west end of 'Chapel Bay'.
1966, in the Report of the Manx Archaeological Survey, volume 6, page 61
Origin
From Manx.
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