Meaning of boreen | Babel Free

Definitions

A narrow, frequently unpaved, rural road in Ireland, often characterised by a ridge of grass growing in the middle.

Ireland

Examples

“Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen \ And she smiled as she passed me by.”

“A boy in a disguise nobody believed in, an actor playing a part he didn't understand, he would trudge every rocky field and quaking bog, every pot-holed road and tortuous boreen, each of the thirteen villages on his father's estate, speaking the Irish he had learned from his father's servants.”

CEFR level