"haggard" = ? a stack-yard, 1999-2009

[Joel S. Berson]

The flagstones, dry-stone walls, the slumping thatch,
out-offices and cow cabins, the patch
of haggard he sowed spuds and onions in—
all of it a century out of fashion— ...

"Himself" by Thomas Lynch, from Walking Papers:
1999-2009. © W.W. Norton & Co., 2010.
In "The Writer's Almanac",
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2010/06/28

"haggard, n.1", "In Ireland and Isle of Man: A
stack-yard."; postdates OED2 -1894.

Here the sense seems broader than a stack- or
rick-yard -- would one, even "in Ireland and Isle
of Man" -- grow vegetables there?  (I assume the
author is British or Irish from his later spelling "cheque".)

Joel

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