| Documented AssociationGives the names of Early Christian ecclesiastics (the DIB terms such individuals often regarded as founders of churches — saints in the Irish tradition), whose association with the sites concerned is based on documentary sources. | Máel-Rúain Eps; Crón &; Cóemsa virgines |
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| LineageThis records the reputed ancestral lines of individuals given in Doc Assoc. | Ulaid |
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| TownlandGives the townland (name spelt as in TTPBI Index) in
which the site is (or is thought to be) located. | Tallaght |
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| ParishGives the civil (not ecclesiastical) parish in which the townland is situated. | Tallaght |
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| DeaneryThis records the rural deanery (a sub-division of the diocese) to which the parish belongs. | Taney |
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| DioceseThis records the medieval (not necessarily the same as the modern) diocese in which the foundation lies. | Dublin |
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| BaronyGives the modern barony (as in TTPBI Index the baronies were rationalised in 19thC) in which the townland and civil parish are situated. | Uppercross |
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| CountyGives the county in which the barony lies. | Dublin |
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| ProvinceGives both the civil province in which the county lies and the ecclesiastical province to which the diocese belongs. | Leinster; Dublin |
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| SourcesThis is concerned almost exclusively with hagiographical sources (mainly Lives of the saints, martyrologies and genealogies of the saints) and relates to the individuals and lineages in Doc Assoc and Lineage. | Mart.T (7 Jul, 10 Aug Máelruain; 25 Feb Crón); Mart.O; Mart.G; Mart.D; Mart.Chr.Ch; (7 Jul); LL 352g 10, 368e 56 |
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| Recorded HistoryThis concerns the subsequent history of the site, with emphasis on pre-Norman (or early post-Norman) native sources mainly annals but also including medieval ecclesiastical records (charters or taxations), English Crown documents and, on occasion, modern sources (especially surveys or maps, which may mark the location of lost sites or illuminate placenames). | Ann.Ult 811 (familia prevent Óenach Tailten); Ann.FM 1125(Mac Máele-Suthain died at); Cr.Mihi 1179, 1186, 1190, 1216, 1223, c.1280; Tax 1302-06 |
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| Clerical StatusThis seeks to classify foundations as episcopal coarbial or eremitic based on the clerical orders ascribed to the reputed founder, the later succession-record or the placename of the site. | episcopal + coarbial |
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| GenderThis seeks to classify foundations as male or female based on the gender of the reputed founder, the later succession-record or the placename of the site. | male |
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| Succession RecordLists ecclesiastics, male or female, who succeeded to offices at the foundation concerned abbots, abbesses, comarbai, bishops often clerics of less exalted rank such as treasurers, lectors, scribes. These lists make no claim to be exhaustive; fuller accounts for major sites can be found in the New History of Ireland, vol. 8, and in published prosopographies. | Founder: 792; bishops (Mart.T): 8thC Iosep (5 Jan), Echaid (28 Jan), Airendán** (10 Feb); (Ann.Ult): 812*, 874^; (Ann.FM): 913± (=915), 962 (=964), 964 (=966), 966 (=968); abb (Ann.Ult): 803**, 825, 868; (Ann.FM): 894 (=899), 913± (=915), 937 (=939), 966 (=968); princeps: 812*, 827, 874^, 875; comarba: 957 (Ann.FM =959) |
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| Folk TraditionRecords traditional stories, beliefs or practices (especially pilgrimages or patterns), or a tradition of clandestine burial either recorded or inferred from location names such as the killeen or the caldragh. | trad that well moved; blessed trout in well (O'Curry?); 'St Mollroon' |
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| Field RemainsRecords physical remains of sites, whether visible in the field or accessed through excavation. Precedence is given to features considered to be characteristic of the Early Christian/pre-Reform era, such as enclosures, (especially circular or oval), cross-slabs, high-crosses, bullauns and raised areas — with round towers and church remains further down the list unless there is a strong case for doing otherwise. | eccl site; bell tower; stone cross (removed 1778 - O'Curry OSL); chapel well |
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| ArtifactsIn general, this records only items
which may support the case for the site as a pre-Reform ecclesiastical settlement (especially croziers, shrines, chalices etc) — whether recovered by search or excavation, or merely associated with the site by tradition. Also included are such items as querns and kilns as flour-production was an important part of life at ecclesiastical (although also, admittedly, at secular) settlement sites. | Mart.T; Stowe Missal possibly written (or commenced?) here |
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| BibliographyMentions secondary references (sometimes very select indeed) to the site concerned. Some contain detailed discussion, others (especially where little else seems to be available) only the briefest mentions. For details see the Bibliography page. | Archdall 1786, 257; Dalton 1838; Ball, JRSAI, 1899; Handcock 1899; Ball 1907, III; Joyce 1921; Ronan 1956; Ó Danachair 1958; Scantlebury 1961; Gwynn &; Hadcock 1970; Ó Riain 1985, 202 (n. 316), 333; Dolan 1985, 134; Stout 1992, 35; Charles-Edwards 2000, 4-5, 198, 558; Harrington 2002, 107-8, 128-9, 183-4, 208; Byrnes 2005, 308-09; MacShamhráin 2005a, 138 |
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| AddendumIncludes fragments of additional information (or
comments on the part of the compilers) relating to the site in question. | otherwise T. Librén; lead house of Céli Dé; Less Caillech (womens' encl) here or Cell na n-Ingen? links with Cluain Brónaig/Cell Íte (qqv) |
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