Anglo-Irish. [corruption of Ir. bairigen breac speckled cake (Wh. Stokes).] A currant-bun.
1878. Miss Yonge, Yng. Stepmother, 317. A great barmbrack from Biddy.
1877. Flora L. Shaw, Castle Blair (1882), 189. The number of buns and barmbracks had to be calculated.