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English
Etymology
From erenagh + -y.
Noun
erenaghy (plural erenaghies)
- (Ireland, history, ecclesiastical) the office of erenagh
- 1973 Kenneth Nicholls, Gaelic and Gaelicised Ireland in the Middle Ages, Gill and Macmillan, ISBN 7171 0561 X p.113:
- 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
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