erenagh

English

Alternative forms

• erenach

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Irish airchinnech, from Proto-Celtic *ɸare-kʷenno- (“extremity, end”); see *kʷennom (“head”).

Noun

erenagh (plural erenaghs)

1. (Ireland, history, ecclesiastical) The head of a clan occupying church lands under a bishop in Gaelic Ireland.

Related terms

• erenaghy

See also

• coarb

References

• Kenneth Nicholls, Gaelic and Gaelicised Ireland in the Middle Ages, Gill and Macmillan (1972) ISBN 7171 0561 X pp.111–113.

Anagrams

• Henegar