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boreen /bɔːˈriːn /noun IrishA narrow country road.The group was transported in a convoy of police vans, ambulances and four-wheel drives, which snaked its way along main roads and boreens to the search area....- For years this minstrel roamed up and down the boreens and roads of Mayo and Galway until finally he died in Craughwell, Co. Galway at the age of fifty one.
- The vets who travel down the rough roads and boreens day and night and set up shop in cold sheds and barns to perform a section or some other task share the world of the small farmer.
Origin Mid 19th century: from Irish bóithrín, diminutive of bóthar 'road'. |