MEANING OF "BAWN."

*Bawn* (Vol. i, p. 440.) has been explained as "the outer fortification, inclosing the court-yard of an Irish castle or mansion, and was generally composed of a wall with palisadoes, and sometimes flankers." The word *bawn* or *bane* (the *a* pronounced as in the English word *hat*) is still applied in the south of Ireland to the spot of ground used as a place for milking the cows of a farm, which, for obvious reasons, is generally close to the farm-house. Before the practice of housing cattle became general, every country gentleman's house had its *bawn* or *bane*. The necessity for having su…