- The
medieval Irish office of
erenagh (Old Irish: airchinnech,
Modern Irish: airchinneach, Latin: princeps) was
responsible for
receiving parish revenue...
-
meaning 'to s****'.
Originating in
County Longford, the
Sheridans were
erenaghs of Granard, but in the
County Cavan they
served the O'Reillys. Top A B...
- some to mean the "handsome one". The Uí Cuileáin of
County Tyrone were
erenaghs of Clogher.
According to
historian C.
Thomas Cairney, the O'Cullanes were...
- the
office of
erenagh p****ed into the
hands of laymen.
After the
disorder of the
Norse wars in the 10th and 11th centuries, the
erenaghs were generally...
- century,
every parish had a
vicar and a
parson instead of a co-arb and an
erenagh. The vicar, like the co-arb, was
always in orders. He said the m**** (‘serveth...
- Tirkennedy,
Fermanagh family.
Brehons (both
Irish and
canon law), Harpists,
Erenaghs of
Derrybrusk in Fermanagh, high
ranking churchmen in the
Dioceses of Clogher...
-
Ulster every church had a
vicar and a
parson instead of a co-arb and an
erenagh. The vicar, like the co-arb, was
always in orders. He said the m**** ('serveth...
-
Roscommon family who
served as
erenaghs of
Ardcane in that
county and
produced many
notable ecclesiastics –
erenaghs were
hereditary lay
lords who held...
- Cianáin was the name of a Gaelic-Irish
Brehon family. They were
originally erenaghs of the
parish of Cleenish,
Lough Erne, but who had
served for
several centuries...
- Crínán of Dunkeld, also
called Crinan the
Thane (c. 975–1045), was the
erenagh, or
hereditary lay-abbot, of
Dunkeld Abbey and,
similarly to
Irish "royal-...
