. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. tibus agellis. iNowerenach and termon lands being free fromall charges of temporal lords as also eccle-siastical possessions, were by the fourthconstitution of the council held at Cash el,anno 1172, the bishops being the chieflords of them, and the churches beingcommonly built upon them, the reparationof a great part whereof being continuallyupon the erenach that belonged to them, there is no question to be made but they were of this nature, and for--asrauch as unto these lands certain freedoms were annexed— theprivilege of sanctuar
. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. tibus agellis. iNowerenach and termon lands being free fromall charges of temporal lords as also eccle-siastical possessions, were by the fourthconstitution of the council held at Cash el,anno 1172, the bishops being the chieflords of them, and the churches beingcommonly built upon them, the reparationof a great part whereof being continuallyupon the erenach that belonged to them, there is no question to be made but they were of this nature, and for--asrauch as unto these lands certain freedoms were annexed— theprivilege of sanctuary—the land from thence was called termon orfree and protected land, for the word Tearmann is used in the Irishtongue for a sanctuary (whence Termon-feckin, a town belonging to tlieArchbishop of Armagh hath his denomination as it were the sanctuaryof Feckin, and may well be thought to have been borrowed by the Irish(as many other words are) from the Latin terininm by reason that suchprivileged places were commonly bounded by special marks and Seal of the Monastery of from an impres-sion in wax. {To le co7itmued.)E2 ( 52 ) THE CRYPTIC ELEMENT ALLEGED TO EXIST IN OGHAMINSCRIPTIONS. Bvr R. A. STEWART MACALISTER, [Submitted March 28, 1899.] JV/Ty purpose in writing the work on Irish Epigraphy was not topresent a liistory of the various steps in decipherment, and for thatreason I dismissed with a word a theory to which some Oghamists asserttheir adherence. The author of a treatise on Practical Chemistry doesnot consider himself bound to devote a chapter to the mysteries ofAlchemy, and I considered the cryptical theory as occupying the sameposition with respect to modern scientific methods of decipherment asdoes Alchemy with regard to the processes of a present-day by the application of the cryptical theory important side-lightshave been thrown on archoeological difficulties, just as alchemical re-searches have indirectly led t
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