(Ireland, history, ecclesiastical) The head of a clan occupying church lands under a bishop in Gaelic Ireland.
(Ireland, history, ecclesiastical) The head of a clan occupying church lands under a bishop in Gaelic Ireland.
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(Ireland, history, ecclesiastical) the office of erenagh.
(Irish, historical) The honour price ascribed to an individual as a measure of his/her status, recorded in the early Irish Law tracts. It had to be paid for any major offence committed against an individual, e.g. murder, satire, serious injury, refusal of hospitality, theft, violation of protection, etc.
(Ireland, historical) A judge or lawgiver in ancient Celtic Ireland.
(Ireland, historical) An area of land belonging to a church or monastery.
(historical, Ireland) eminent scholastic, used as a title.