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Definition of Currach
1. Noun. (nautical) An Irish boat, constructed like a coracle, and originally the same shape; now a boat of similar construction but conventional shape and large enough to be operated by up to eight oars. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Currach
1. a coracle [n -S] - See also: coracle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Currach
Literary usage of Currach
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Place Names of West Aberdeenshire by James Macdonald, Donald Mackinnon (1899)
"currach, obs., "a bog, marsh." This place is a marshy hollow on the farm of ...
currach Pool (Clatt, 6). Also currach Stripe and Well. See currach. ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"The first occurrence of the name seems to be in Gildas, who wrote in the sixth
century; he speaks of the currach as in use among the Scots and the Picts. ..."
3. Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, from 1766 to 1791 by David Dalrymple, Scotland Court of Session, Mungo Ponton Brown (1826)
"Lord Fife's possession has only been by currach, the Crown having granted one
... Yet, although he has a currach fishing, nothing hinders the Crown to grant ..."
4. Silva gadelica (I-XXXI): a collection of tales in Irish with extracts by Standish Hayes O'Grady (1892)
"After this they got a turn of fair wind and hoisted their sail, whereby the
currach shipped less water on them ; then the sea moderated, abating its hubbub ..."
5. Glencreggan by Cuthbert Bede (1861)
"His passage from Ireland was made in a currach or boat, ... Adamnan describes
the currach employed by St. Columba at lona, as possessing all the parts of a ..."
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