Anglo-Irish. [corruption of Ir. bairigen breac speckled cake (Wh. Stokes).] A currant-bun.

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1878.  Miss Yonge, Yng. Stepmother, 317. A great barmbrack from Biddy.

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1877.  Flora L. Shaw, Castle Blair (1882), 189. The number of buns and barmbracks had to be calculated.

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