erenaghy

E1R1E1N1A1G2H4Y4

noun

the office of erenagh

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Meanings

nounerenaghy (plural erenaghies)

plural erenaghies

  1. Irelandecclesiasticalthe office of erenagh

    If the clan in which the erenaghy was vested became extinct, the bishop could not keep the lands in his own hands but must instal a new erenagh family

    1973 Kenneth Nicholls, Gaelic and Gaelicised Ireland in the Middle Ages, Gill and Macmillan, ISBN 7171 0561 X p.113

Origin

From erenagh + -y.

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