Lexicographical Neighbors of Brochans
Literary usage of Brochans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Other brochans are mentioned in the Martyrology of Gorman under 1 January, 9
April, 27 June, and 25 August. O'HANLON. Lives of the Irish Saints (Dublin, ..."
2. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"For in all her letters Mary Jane would be saying how it was a grand town she was
in, but she would rather have yellow-meal brochans * in Creeslough nor ham ..."
3. Domestic Annals of Scotland: From the Reformation to the Revolution by Robert Chambers (1874)
"... rocks, and reels,' ' brochans, cogs, and spoons,' with legends containing
burlesque allusions to the doings of the zealous during the preceding twenty ..."
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