machar

Dreams "; but most of these shorter mystical tales have not the tang and savor of farm-home on lonely moors, or fisher's hut on the lonelier machar, that is characteristic of most of the tales long and short, that deal with modern days.

Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt 1914

On the side of the loch, when we emerged from the hills, there was a cluster of whin-bushes spread out upon a machar of land that in a less rigorous season of the year, by the feel of the shoe-sole, must be velvet-piled with salty grass.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro