Haggart?

antlyn

Heard this mentioned a lot lately in relation to farms. Just wondering what it is?

Bodacious

antlyn wrote: »

Heard this mentioned a lot lately in relation to farms. Just wondering what it is?

In the West, a haggart would be a Small field close to the house with a strong perimeter fence or wall where the hay reeks used to be stored to feed the stock for the Winter

sh1tstirrer

antlyn wrote: »

Heard this mentioned a lot lately in relation to farms. Just wondering what it is?

Long time since I heard that. It's the yard or old farmyards that had a 1/4 acre beside the sheds.

Rovi

It's an old term for a hayshed, particularly, in my opinion, an open-sided one.

I'd have always spelled it 'Haggard' though, but I doubt there's an OED approved spelling


EDITED TO ADD:
According to dictionary.com:
haggard (ˈhæɡərd)
—n
(in Ireland and the Isle of Man) an enclosure beside a farmhouse in which crops are stored
[C16: related to Old Norse heygarthr, from hey hay + garthr yard]

So, it looks like it's the small enclosed field, not the open hayshed I've spent my life thinking it was

johngalway

Bodacious wrote: »

In the West, a haggart would be a Small field close to the house with a strong perimeter fence or wall where the hay reeks used to be stored to feed the stock for the Winter

Yup, that's my understanding of it too, we have one beside a field where most of the hay used to be cut.

Bizzum

Where I grew up the Haggard was the small 1/4 Acre or so area off the yard' behind the sheds where the Pikes (Reeks) of hay were kept. Spuds were kept there in a pit too.
I might add, it's still there. It's a long time since hay was in it but it grows spuds and veg every year. it's still called the haggard though!

sea12

Bizzum wrote: »

Where I grew up the Haggard was the small 1/4 Acre or so area off the yard' behind the sheds where the Pikes (Reeks) of hay were kept. Spuds were kept there in a pit too.
I might add, it's still there. It's a long time since hay was in it but it grows spuds and veg every year. it's still called the haggard though!

yep I am the same as that. Still have it although it has nearly become part of the farmyard as it expanded. Still call it the haggard though

red bull

yea we had a haggard remember it well 4 stands for the barley and oats. these were stacks that were raised of the ground on standing stones criss crossed with wooden poles. 6 big cocks of hay and mangolds and turnips stored along by the walls covered with straw. big cocks of hay made out in the fields as well with a pole up the middle known as sheep cocks, as the sheep ate the hay it would slide down the pole. memories memories

red bull

we had great times when the thresher came around

pakalasa

Yep, it's still there and still called the Haggard. The little field at the back of my Grandparents house. I suppose in today's world, it would be called the back lawn.

johngalway

pakalasa wrote: »

Yep, it's still there and still called the Haggard. The little field at the back of my Grandparents house. I suppose in today's world, it would be called the back lawn.

Yes, and five years ago it would have been covered in the most God awful crappy timber and called "the deck", the best place to slip and break your neck outside of cold weather and icy conditions