haggart

== English == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Noun === haggart (plural haggarts) (Ireland, dated) A farmyard or small enclosed field; a vegetable patch or kitchen garden. 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.