Boreen

Quick meaning: Boreen is a noun meaning (Ireland) A narrow, frequently unpaved, rural road in Ireland, often characterised by a ridge of grass growing in the middle.

Meaning

(Ireland) A narrow, frequently unpaved, rural road in Ireland, often characterised by a ridge of grass growing in the middle.

Example Sentences

Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen \ And she smiled as she passed me by.

A boy in a disguise nobody believed in, an actor playing a part he didn't understand, he would trudge every rocky field and quaking bog, every pot-holed road and tortuous boreen, each of the thirteen villages on his father's estate, speaking the Irish he had learned from his father's servants.

Word Forms

• boreens

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bohereen, bohireen, barrow, bealach, lough, bowling.

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