severally retired into private places,* where they devoted themselvesto prayer and other godly acts for their souls' health ; andin testimony of their zeal and devotion erected churches to whichthe temporal lords gave a portion of land for the purpose thatsaid religious men should maintain hospitality and pray for theirsouls' health, and repair and keep said churches and otherwiseadvance the service of God-and that upon these hermits .orreligious persons ceasing, each of them made choice of the mostsufficient person about him, and to that person and his sept he gavehis portion of land, to be inherited by him and his sept for the sameuses and intents as the temporal lords first gave them to said religiouspersons ; and to said lands were annexed certain libertiesand freedoms, as sanctuary and the like, for which cause said landswere called termon, or free and protected lands, the chief tenantin some places is called corbe, and in some places herenaghthatafterwards when the temporal lords in their several wars,and upon other occasions, began to charge and tax the termonlands with divers exactions, the coarbs and herenaghs fled tothe bishop of their diocese for protection against the wrongsand injuries inflicted cn them by the temporal lords, and forthe bishcp's pr~tection agreed to pay a rent or pension and sometimesthey sought the same of sucn one of the temporal lords asthey thought could defend them against the rest, and to whomsome of the corbes and herenaghs agreed to give rents or pensions ;until-such time the bishop never had anything to do either withtheir lands or tenements, but from thenceforth he undertook theprotection of the said herenagbs and their lands, ana in processof time took on him a, power to confirm each corbe and herenaghin their lands, and upon the alteration of any corbe or herenagh,took certain dutits which they yielded in order to continue underhis protection ; and when a corbe and herenagh were to be elected,and if the sept did not agree among themselves then the bishop andthe whole clergy assembled could elect one of the same sept,commonly the most ancient, who was to be confirmed by thebishop ; and if the whole sept at any time became extinct, thebishop could not detain or dispose of their lands but to an~thersept out of which the new corbe or herenagh rere to be created,to in1 erjt the lands to the same uses for which they bere originallygranted by the temporal lords to the hermits or religious men,and which the bishop could not do without the consent of thewhole clergy, nor alter or increase the rents or pensions ; and* Such places Mere usually known as Diserl (Itatin, clt.scrtu*:~), which fornismany parish and townland names, and is sometimes translated " Hermitage."There is a townland, Disert, in Kildallan parish and in the neighhourhood ofKilleshandra. The Disert Moaedkoig, or Hermitage of St. Mogue, was locatedsomewhere in Kildallan parish, and there is a reasonable probability forassuming that this townland mag have been the place of his retreat. Thehistorical evidence for this is, however, indecisive, and the question musta\vnjt further research.
if the corbe or herenagh, or any of the sept, forfeited any parcelof their land that same came not to the bishop, but dividedthrough the whole sept. The difference between corbe and herenaghis, that the corbe, called in Latin $lcibanzcs, is head of agreater family or sept, and sometimes has several septs andseveral herenaghs under him ; whereas the herenagh is head ofa smaller number of people, and seldom has under him more thanhis own sept.[This concludes the <strong>Cavan</strong> Inqz4isition. On September 18of the same year an Inquisition for Co. Fermanagh was held atBnniskillen, and the following abstract from its report concerns ?,the Fermanagh section of Kilmore Diocese].The bishop of Kilmore is seised of a rent of 4s. and a cosherieof 4 quarters of beef at his visitation, or 40 groats* in lieu thereofsent him home if he go not in person out of the herenagh lana ofKilenallie,? containing 3 tatesl new measure, of which Muntergromaghgis herenagh in Clonawlie barony, also of other rentsand duties the amount of which is not known, but refer to thebishop's register ; out of the herenagh land of I
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