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bawn|bɔːn|
Also 6 baon, banne, 7–8 baune, 9 bane.
[ad. Ir. bábhun (O'Clery), of unknown derivation.]
1. A fortified enclosure, enceinte, or circumvallation; the fortified court or outwork of a castle.
1537St. Papers Hen. VIII, II. 441 Our Englishe men as⁓sauted the diges and baon of the castell. 1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinsh. II. 167/1 This castell..and the bannes about it. 1596Spenser State Irel. 502 b, These..square bawns which you see so strongly trenched and thrown up. 1736Carte Ormonde II. 6 Defects in the walls of the outward Bawne..rendered it assaultable. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. III. 506 in N. & Q. 1850 Ser. i. I. 440/1 Those who received 2000 acres were bound..to build a castle and bawn or strong court yard: the second class..to build a stone house with a bawn; the third class a bawn only.
2. A cattlefold.
1850N. & Q. Ser. i. II. 60/2 The word bawn or bane..is still applied in the south of Ireland to the..place for milking the cows of a farm..Before the practice of housing cattle became general, every country gentleman's house had its bawn. 1882Whitehall Rev. No. 21. 6/1 A large castle..with a bawn attached to preserve their cattle at night. |