Glossary
- abatisa/abbatisa
- abbess (see also banabb)
- abb
- abbot (see also abbas)
- abbas
- abbot (see also abb)
- Additamenta
- Additional notes to Tírechán in Bk.Arm
- advowson
- a right of presentation to a vacant benefice
- aecclesia
- church (see also ecclas)
- ailithir (ind)
- pilgrim (the)
- airch/airchinnech
- ecclesiastical head (erenagh)
- aistire
- ostiarius/ostiary (door/gatekeeper)
- aithrígheach
- penitent
- anamchara
- confessor (literally soul friend)
- ancoire
- anchorite (see also ancorita)
- ancorita
- anchorite (see also ancoire)
- antiphonary
- hymnal
- bachall
- crozier
- banabb
- abbess (sse also abatisa)
- banairch/banairchinnech
- ecclesiastical head - female
- bancomarba/i
- successor(s)/ecclesiastical head(s) - female
- banpríor
- prioress
- beehive hut
- circular corbled dry-stone hut (see also clochán)
- bicair
- vicar (occassionally comarba sv)
- bivallate
- double-walled (as applied to enclosures)
- bullaun
- enigmatic dished stone field-monument assoc with EC church sites
- Caldragh
- clandestine burial ground (see also calluragh, cillín/killeen)
- Calluragh
- clandestine burial ground (see also caldragh, cillín/killeen)
- cantred/half cantr.
- Anglo-Norman territorial unit
- caput
- centre/seat (literally head)
- cillín/killeen
- clandestine burial ground (see also caldragh, calluragh)
- clochán
- clochaun, cloughan - circular corbled dry-stone hut (see also beehive hut)
- clochar
- convent, community building (literally a stone structure)
- cloiccthech
- round tower (literally bell-house)
- comarba(e) (coarb)
- successor(s)/ecclesiastical head(s)
- comotatio
- the taking of relics on circuit
- confraternitas
- a confraternity - formal agreement between two eccelesiastical foundations (see aslo óentad)
- cross-slab
- stone field-monument, cross-inscribed or shaped, generally recumbent, often a burial marker
- cruimthir
- presbyter (priest)
- Cyclopean masonry
- structure comprised of large stones - characteristic of EC period
- dairtech/dertach
- an oak built church or oratory
- damliacc
- stone church
- dechoin
- deacon (see also diaconus)
- diaconal
- associated with a deacon
- diaconus/diac
- deacon (see also dechoin)
- ditch
- a bank (although used by some to mean a trench - see fosse)
- díthrebach
- exile - one expelled from his tribe
- dominatrix
- abbess (literally 'lady' - feminine of dominus); see also banabb
- domnach
- church (from British Latin dominicum; assumed to indicate early parochial church)
- double bellcote
- stone fixture above front gable to accommodate two bells; characteristic of late medieval church buildings
- double cashel
- pair of concentric stone walls surrounding a circular or oval enclosure; characteristic of EC sites
- ecclas
- church (see also aecclesia)
- eigenkirche
- patron's church
- eps/epscop
- bishop
- equonimus
- treasurer/bursar
- eremite
- ascetic celibate cleric
- eremitic
- relating to eremite(s)
- érlam
- ecclesiastical patron
- exegetical scholar
- an authority in exegesis (biblical interpretation)
- fer léiginn
- professor of ecclesiastical school (literally 'man of learning') - see also lector
- Fiant
- English Crown Pardon
- fosse
- a trench
- glossator(s)
- one who enters glosses (marginal notes) in a manuscript
- Hib Norse
- Hiberno Norse
- ingen/ingena
- daughter/s
- Inspex.
- Inspeximus (legal inquiry into a charter)
- kiln
- oven for drying corn
- Knights Fees
- holdings granted to knights by English Crown
- leacht
- slab-shrine commonly believed to be founder's tomb
- lector
- professor of ecclesiastical school (see also fer léiginn)
- Lugnasa/Lughnasa
- religious festival associated with pagan god Lug(h)
- lusus naturae
- marvel of nature
- maccán
- a youth
- manach/manchaib
- monk(s)
- margad
- market
- mirabilia
- marvellous (literally miraculous) occurrences
- náem/nóem
- saint, holy person (see also nóeb)
- náem-ingena
- holy maidens (see also nóeb-ingena) - female religious
- nóeb
- saint, holy person (see also náem)
- nóeb-eps
- holy bishop
- nóebingena
- holy maidens (see also náem-ingena) - female religious
- notulae
- notes (see also additamenta)
- óentad
- a 'Unity' - formal agreement between two eccelesiastical foundations (see also confraternitas)
- ogam stone
- standing stone with branching alphabet inscription broadly dateable to transitional Christian period
- plebs
- population group (see also túath)
- prainntech
- refectory
- prebend
- endowment of a cathedral canon
- preceptory
- foundation of a medieval military order
- prímcomarba/prímcomarbae
- principal successor(s)/ecclesiastical head(s)
- princeps/principes
- ecclesiastical head(s) (see also abb, airchinnech, comarba)
- quern/s(stone)
- handmill(s) for grinding corn
- relec
- cemetery/burial ground
- riaglóir
- ruler
- rígdál
- royal assembly
- Rómánaig (ind)
- Romans (the)
- Romanesque
- architectural/artistic style - flourished in Ireland 12thC.
- saccart
- priest (occasionally bishop)
- sacerdos (sac)
- priest (occasionally bishop)
- sapiens
- lector, scholar (literally wise one) see also fer léiginn
- scriba
- scribe
- scrín
- shrine
- secnap
- vice abbot
- senóir
- senior member of community
- sóer-chell
- free church
- souterrain
- concealed / underground chamber
- standing/stdg stone
- erect stone sometimes inscribed - possible indicator of EC site
- Tau cross
- crutch-headed cross (probably 12thC)
- termann/termonn
- perimeter of sanctuary at EC site
- tóchar
- causeway (generally wooden - across bogland)
- trivallate
- triple walled (as applied to enclosures)
- tuarastal
- a 'stipend' paid by over-lord to vassal or by the head of a greater Church to that of a lesser Church
- túath
- population group (see also plebs)
- tulach
- a mound
- virgo
- virgin (celibate female religious)
- voussoirs
- head shaped decorations (characteristic of Romanesque design)
