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The medieval Irish office of '''erenagh''' ([[Old Irish]]: ''airchinnech'', [[Modern Irish]]: ''airchinneach'', [[Latin]]: ''[[princeps]]''<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g6yq2sKLlFkC&dq=latin+erenagh&pg=PA630 |title = Early Christian Ireland|isbn = 9780521363952|last1 = Charles-Edwards|first1 = T. M.|date = 2000-11-30}}</ref>) was responsible for receiving parish revenue from tithes and rents, building and maintaining church property and overseeing the [[termonn]] lands that generated parish income. Thus he had a [[prebendary]] role. The erenagh originally had a tonsure but took no other holy orders; he had a voice in the Chapter when they consulted about revenues, paid a yearly rent to the Bishop and a fine on the marriage of each daughter. The role usually passed down from generation to generation in certain families in each parish. After the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]] and the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]] the role of erenagh became subsumed in the responsibilities of the [[parson]] in each parish. |
The medieval Irish office of '''erenagh''' ([[Old Irish]]: ''airchinnech'', [[Modern Irish]]: ''airchinneach'', [[Latin]]: ''[[princeps]]''<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g6yq2sKLlFkC&dq=latin+erenagh&pg=PA630 |title = Early Christian Ireland|isbn = 9780521363952|last1 = Charles-Edwards|first1 = T. M.|date = 2000-11-30}}</ref>) was responsible for receiving parish revenue from tithes and rents, building and maintaining church property and overseeing the [[termonn]] lands that generated parish income. Thus he had a [[prebendary]] role. The erenagh originally had a tonsure but took no other holy orders; he had a voice in the Chapter when they consulted about revenues, paid a yearly rent to the Bishop and a fine on the marriage of each daughter. The role usually passed down from generation to generation in certain families in each parish. After the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]] and the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]] the role of erenagh became subsumed in the responsibilities of the [[parson]] in each parish. |
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However, many, most, or all Gaelic ecclesiastical institutions of the medieval period also had airchinnigh (plural form) responsible for various administrative functions. They could be responsible for such functions for the institution as a whole or for specific sub-divisions, such as the airchinneach of the guest-house at Clonmacnoise (for which we see entries in the Chronicon Scotorum and Annála Ríoghachta Éireann for the year 1106) and the airchinneach of a third part of Aireach Moelain (Derryvullan) as we see in Annála Ríoghachta Éireann for the year 1441. |
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==Surname== |
==Surname== |
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The common surname [[McInerney]] is derived from the Irish, Mac an Airchinnigh (son of the erenagh). As may be supposed, this surname arose in various areas in Ireland leading to numerous unrelated bearers of the name. The most prominent group of the family were associated with the County of Clare since at least the late 13th century when they were first recorded in the annals of the county and are still numerous in that county today. This sept was subordinate to the McNamaras and it was from them that the family originally derived. The McInerneys in County Clare were based in the Barony of [[Lower Bunratty]] on their ancestral estates in and around the present day townlands of Ballysallagh, Ballynacragga and Dromoland (parish of [[Kilnasoolagh]]). Members of the family held substantial property there until the Cromwellian confiscations of the 1650s, whereby several members of the family were transplanted to other areas of the County, in part due to their involvement in the 1641 rebellion. Today the name is numerous in County Clare, Limerick and Dublin, and can be found in the United States, Canada, Australia, England and New Zealand. |
The common surname [[McInerney]] is derived from the Irish, Mac an Airchinnigh (son of the erenagh). As may be supposed, this surname arose in various areas in Ireland leading to numerous unrelated bearers of the name. The most prominent group of the family were associated with the County of Clare since at least the late 13th century when they were first recorded in the annals of the county and are still numerous in that county today. This sept was subordinate to the McNamaras and it was from them that the family originally derived. The McInerneys in County Clare were based in the Barony of [[Lower Bunratty]] on their ancestral estates in and around the present day townlands of Ballysallagh, Ballynacragga and Dromoland (parish of [[Kilnasoolagh]]). Members of the family held substantial property there until the Cromwellian confiscations of the 1650s, whereby several members of the family were transplanted to other areas of the County, in part due to their involvement in the 1641 rebellion. Today the name is numerous in County Clare, Limerick and Dublin, and can be found in the United States, Canada, Australia, England and New Zealand. |
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The medieval Irish office of erenagh (Old Irish: airchinnech, Modern Irish: airchinneach, Latin: princeps[1]) was responsible for receiving parish revenue from tithes and rents, building and maintaining church property and overseeing the termonn lands that generated parish income. Thus he had a prebendary role. The erenagh originally had a tonsure but took no other holy orders; he had a voice in the Chapter when they consulted about revenues, paid a yearly rent to the Bishop and a fine on the marriage of each daughter. The role usually passed down from generation to generation in certain families in each parish. After the Reformation and the Dissolution of the Monasteries the role of erenagh became subsumed in the responsibilities of the parson in each parish.
Surname
The common surname McInerney is derived from the Irish, Mac an Airchinnigh (son of the erenagh). As may be supposed, this surname arose in various areas in Ireland leading to numerous unrelated bearers of the name. The most prominent group of the family were associated with the County of Clare since at least the late 13th century when they were first recorded in the annals of the county and are still numerous in that county today. This sept was subordinate to the McNamaras and it was from them that the family originally derived. The McInerneys in County Clare were based in the Barony of Lower Bunratty on their ancestral estates in and around the present day townlands of Ballysallagh, Ballynacragga and Dromoland (parish of Kilnasoolagh). Members of the family held substantial property there until the Cromwellian confiscations of the 1650s, whereby several members of the family were transplanted to other areas of the County, in part due to their involvement in the 1641 rebellion. Today the name is numerous in County Clare, Limerick and Dublin, and can be found in the United States, Canada, Australia, England and New Zealand.
References
- ^ Charles-Edwards, T. M. (30 November 2000). Early Christian Ireland. ISBN 9780521363952.
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