what is a barrack
A barrack or barracks is a building or group of buildings built to house soldiers. The English word comes via French from an old Catalan word barraca (hut), originally referring to temporary shelters or huts for various people and animals, but today barracks are usually permanent buildings for military accommodation.arrack accommodation at the time was provided for a mere 20,000. To deal with the situation, responsibility for building barracks was transferred in 1792 from the Board of Ordnance to a specialist Barracks Department overseen by the War Office.