booly

Meanings

1. A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk.
2. An enclosed shelter in the pasture land, usually in the mountainous parts, for the shelter of cattle or their herders.

Etymology

From Irish buaile (“cattle enclosure, summer pasturage for cows”), from Old Irish bó (“cow”) or būale, probably from Latin bovile (“cattle stall”) or bubile, from Latin bos (“cow, bull, ox”) (bov-).