Lexicographical Neighbors of Coarbs
Literary usage of Coarbs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... presided over the retreat), and were subsequently called Termon Magrath from
the family of Magrath, who were coarbs or stewards of the place from 1290. ..."
2. The Celtic Church in Ireland: The Story of Ireland and Irish Christianity by James Heron (1898)
"For many generations, for example, the coarbs, or heirs, or successors of Comgall
... In the case of Kildare the coarbs were always females; and there is an ..."
3. Ancient laws of Ireland by Ireland, Ireland Commissioners for Pub. the Ancient Laws and Institutes of Ireland, William Neilson Hancock (1879)
"And : " Though heads die, lands die not," ie though the ' coarbs ' are dead, the
lands live. And : " For debts are proportioned to the profits," ie the ..."
4. The Home and Foreign Review (1864)
"The succession of coarbs would naturally be kept up, while that of bishops would
not. Hence most lists of early bishops are in reality those of ..."
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