Irishman turned and kept watch (9)
I believe the answer is:
patrolled
'kept watch' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with social activities as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'irishman turned' is the wordplay.
'irishman' becomes 'pat'.
'turned' becomes 'rolled' (rolling is a kind of turning).
'pat'+'rolled'='PATROLLED'
'and' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for patrolled that I've seen before include "Monitored" , "did the rounds" .)