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McInerney, Luke, “A list of freeholders of Kilfenora diocese in 1601”, Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies 11 (2018): 60–103.

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“A list of freeholders of Kilfenora diocese in 1601”
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Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies 11 (2018)
Tracy, Larissa (ed.), Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies 11 (2018), American Society of Irish Medieval Studies.
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11
Pages
60–103
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This paper presents a list of freeholders of Kilfenora Diocese in County Clare from 1601. The fortuitous survival of this list shows a snap-shot of Gaelic social hierarchies and landholding in an area almost wholly unaffected by anglicizing changes. The value of the list is its survey of land denominations and proprietorship and its focus on the church lands of the Corcomroe division of the diocese. It is speculated here that the list was compiled by a cleric at the cathedral chapter of Kilfenora and that its purpose was to ascertain church lands and property in order to put the administration of the diocese—including its revenues from the diocesan temporalities—on a more sure footing.

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Dennis Groenewegen
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