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termon Irish Hist.|ˈtɜːmən|
[a. OIrish termonn (Annals of Ulster, 810, 830), mod.Ir. tearmann, ‘church-territory or -liberties, privilege, sanctuary, protection’, ancient adaptation of L. terminus ‘limit, bound’; cf. the use of Ir. crich ‘finis, terminus’, in the sense ‘territory’, L. fines.]
Anciently in Ireland, Land belonging to, or forming the precinct or liberties of a religious house, which was free and exempt from all secular charges or imposts; church land. Hence termon-land, church land; ˈtermoner, termon-man (Ir. tearmannach), a tenant of church land.
1533St. Papers Hen. VIII, II. 164 That no Inglish lorde..make any bande or covenaunte with any Irishman to have right ought of him, or bering of men of warre, or termons, to his awne use. 1537Calr. Carew MSS. 116 Termoners. 1607Davies 1st Let. to Earl Salisbury Tracts (1787) 233 The rest of the spiritual lands, which the Irish call Termons, they were granted to sundry servitors. Ibid. 247 Termon doth signify, in the Irish tongue, a liberty, or freedom, and..all Church-lands whatsoever are called Termon-lands by the Irish. Ibid. 248 Glebe-lands, the tenants..whereof were called Termon men, and had privilege of clergy. 1764W. Harris tr. Ware's Antiq. Ireland II. i. xxxv. 233 To him [the Erenach or Herenach] also and to his Family were antiently appropriated Lands called Termon-Lands, as being Lands freed and discharged from all Secular Impositions, but which were liable to certain Pensions and refections, payable yearly to the Bishop. 1848O'Donovan tr. Ann. Irel. 1229 All the termoners of the province. 1890J. Healy Insula Sanct. 275 He plundered Clonmacnoise and its termon lands three times. |