2. Noun. (alternative spelling of currach) ¹
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Definition of Curragh
1. currach [n -S] - See also: currach
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curragh
Literary usage of Curragh
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1868)
"curragh of Kildare. mitment and conveying of the said CD to the said [Prison],
amounting to the further Sum of , shall be sooner paid ..."
2. Publications by Manx Society, Brandeis Lawyers' Society (1871)
"curragh. A large tract of land, called the curragh, runs the breadth of the isle
betwixt Ballaugh and ..."
3. Curiosities of Natural History by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1882)
"The curragh has been a common, the writer showed, since the year, and horse-racing
was introduced upon it in AD 260. ..."
4. An Historical Review of the State of Ireland from the Invasion of that by Francis Plowden (1806)
"... assembled at a place called Gibbet-rath, on the curragh, for the purpose of
surrender, to which they had been ^admitted by general Dundas. ..."
5. The Turf Register and Sportsman & Breeder's Stud-book: Containing the by William Pick, R. Johnson (1803)
"496 1702 Lord Mount-Eagle's Gimcrack, at the curragh in June for four-year olds .
... 198 1762 Sir Edward O'Brien's Lottery, at the curragh in September 185 ..."
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