Example sentences for: cowgate

How can you use “cowgate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • West Bow (said to be so named because it was within a bow’s length of the castle walls) and Candlemakers Row are streets leading away from Cowgate Head, at the end of Grassmarket.

  • Below Grassmarket is Cowgate, known for generations as the Irish Quarter because many families came here to escape the potato famine in their own country.

  • At the western end of Cowgate (where it meets Holyrood Road), you will see one of the few remaining sections of Edinburgh’s old city wall (Flodden Wall), built following the “Lang Siege” of the 1570s.


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