Obs. rare. [a. Ir. ceitheirneach, ceatharnach: see KERN sb.1] An Irish (or Highland) kern.
1535. St. Papers Hen. VIII., II. 242. He was inforced to leue horses, and goo to woodes, as a kernaugh.
1556. Act 3–4 Phil. & Mary, in Bolton, Stat. Irel. (1621), 255. No cottier nor labouring man in husbandry nor horseboy, nor kernaugh shall not buy any horse.
1822. D. Stewart, Highlanders Scot. (1825), I. ii. 40. There was a peculiar class called Kearnachs…. Some of these Kearnachs died in my remembrance.
