haggart

plural haggarts

1. IrelanddatedA farmyard or small enclosed field; a vegetable patch or kitchen garden.

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

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

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   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

   1827 December, Gerald Griffin, “Tales of the Munster Festivals”, in The London Magazine, volume 19, page 493

   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.

   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

plural Haggarts

1. A surname.