Anglo-Irish. Also bohreen. [f. Irish bóthar (pronounced bōhər), a road + -een, diminutive suffix, a. Ir. -ín.] A lane, a narrow road; also transf. an opening in a crowd. (Used only when Irish subjects are referred to.)
1841. S. C. Hall, Ireland, I. 77. At my brother’s, a piece down that boreen. Ibid., 287. Wheresomever he went, the people made a bohreen for him.
1882. R. Downey, Congreve’s Doom, in Tinsleys’ Mag., 498/1. At length we reached a narrow boreen, down which we drove.
