erenagh
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Irish airchinnech.
Noun
erenagh (plural erenaghs)
- (Ireland, historical, ecclesiastical) the head of a clan occupying church lands under a bishop in Gaelic Ireland
References
- Kenneth Nicholls, Gaelic and Gaelicised Ireland in the Middle Ages, Gill and Macmillan (1972) ISBN 7171 0561 X pp.111–113.
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