An Irish term for a boundary line or demarcation between pieces of land — typically a ditch, hedge, or marked strip separating two fields or properties.
An Irish term for a boundary line or demarcation between pieces of land — typically a ditch, hedge, or marked strip separating two fields or properties. The word is used in legal, agricultural, and land-dispute contexts in Ireland, and appears in older Irish land records.
The argument was over which side of the mearing the old oak tree actually stood on.
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(Ireland) A boundary between pieces of land.
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