Obs. Also bonogh, bonough, bownogh. [Irish: O’Reilly has buana a billeted soldier, also buanadh a soldier; Keting in O’Curry, II. 379. buanadh ‘permanent soldiers of the Kings of Erinn.’] A permanent soldier.
1600. Dymmok, Ireland (1843), 51. [Tyrone’s] wealthe … wilbe in shorte tyme exhausted, by the maynteyninge of his Bonaghs.
1633. T. Stafford, Pac. Hib., iii. (1821), 43. Three hundred were Bonoughes, the best furnished men for the warre.
