Also 8 fraghan, 9 frauchan, frughan. [a. Ir. fraochan.] The Irish popular name of the BILBERRY.
1726. Threlkeld, Synopsis Stirp. Hibern., Vaccinia nigra vulgaria.… They grow in wet boggy Ground, in Leinster Frahog; the poor Women gather them in Autumn, and cry them about the streets of Dublin by the Name of Fraghan.
1859. W. S. Coleman, Woodlands (1862), 92. By the Irish they [Bilberries] are called ‘Frawns.’
1878. Britten & Holland, Plant-n., s.v. Frughans, Vaccinium Myrtillus.… The old Irish name.
