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CADASTRAL
A public record, survey or map for tax purposes showing ownership and value of land.

CAMBRIC
Cambric or batiste, one of the finest and most dense kinds of cloth, is a lightweight plain weave cloth, originally from Cambrai, woven in greige, then bleached and piece-dyed, often glazed or calendered. Initially made of linen (flax), then cotton in the 19th century, it is also called batiste. Cambric is used for linens, shirtings, handkerchieves and as fabric for lace and needlework.

CAMBRIC MAKER
Made cambric, a fine cotton or linen fabric

CANON LAW
Church law.

CANT
A term for vernacular speech. Its use varies from instance to instance and has been used, for example, to refer to the speech of Irish gypsies. The term is taken by Irish scholars to stem from Irish caint talk but the use in the New World can in fact be derived from French.

CAPON
A domestic cock which is castrated and fattened for eating. These were the traditional renders in kind, due to a lord and were known as duty food.

CARROW
Quarter.

CARTER
A maker or driver of carts.

CAVEAT
A warning notice that a will is to be disputed. Used to prevent the grant of probate or of administration without notice being given to the caveator – the person entering the caveat.

CEMETERY RECORDS
Cemetery caretakers usually keep records of the names and death dates of those buried, as well as maps of the grave sites. They may also keep more detailed records, including the names of the deceased's relatives. In addition to these paper records, you will find tombstones. Tombstones can provide information such as birth and death dates and the names of other family members.

CENEL
Irish Gaelic, from cineal, meaning race or family. Cenel Eoghain, the race of Eoghan.

CESS
Cess is a British English and Hiberno-English term for a tax. It is a term formerly more particularly applied to local taxation, and was the official term used in Ireland when it was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; otherwise, it has been superseded by "rate".

CESS PAYMENTS
Church Cess was an annual local tax imposed upon every family in a parish by the Church of Ireland to help towards the church's obligations to the poor of the parish. Each family in town and country was assessed on its apparent potential to contribute to the local tax which might well be regarded as corresponding to the latter-day Poor Rate.

CHANDLER
Makes or sells candles; retailer of groceries

CHATTELS
Property, goods, money: as opposed to real property (land).

CHIROGRAPHER
The officer in the court of common pleas who engrossed (copied) documents of fines of lands.

CHURCH RECORDS
Church records are the formal documents that churches have kept about their congregations through the years. Churches normally record information about christenings, baptisms, marriages, and burials. The type of information you will find in the records are the name(s) of the individual(s) involved, the date of the event, the location of the event, and the clergyman's name. You may find additional information, such as parents' names (father's full name and mother's maiden name), the names of witnesses to an event, and the individual's (or family's) place of residence.

CINEAL
Kindred, race, and descendants.

CINEL
Kindred, race, and descendants.

CITATION MANDATE
A legal document requiring someone to do something or appear before the probate court. Announces the date of a visitation of the archdeacon or his official. A court of visitation was a means of governing the parishes under his jurisdiction.

CIVIL PARISH
A civil parish was once an ecclesiastical unit of territory based on early Christian and monastic settlements. The boundaries of the civil parishes originally coincided with ecclesiastical parishes of the Church of Ireland. The parishes of the Catholic Church in Ireland are generally unrelated to civil parishes.

CLACHANS
Tiny, clustered villages with one-room houses which are jumbled together close to the shore.

CLAN
Children, descendants, race.

CLEARANCES
The removal of tenants from estates in the Highlands to make way for sheep farming. Mainly in the 19th century.

CLERK OF THE HANAPER
The clerk in chancery who received the money for the seals of charters. patents, commissions and writs. He also received the fees due and payable to the hanaper for enrolling and examining the same.
A Hanaper is a wicker basket in which were kept writs and other documents, and hence it became the name of a department of the chancery.

CLON
Children, descendants, race.

CLOON
A mine.

CLURICAUN
The cluricaun (or cluricaune) is an Irish elf, or perhaps a fairy, in the form of a tiny old man. He exists in a state of perpetual drunkenness and loves to play practical jokes. In his work Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, W. B. Yeats writes: “Some suppose he is merely the Leprechaun on a spree.” However Yeats leaves the classification ambiguous, and instead writes of the similarities between leprechauns and cluricauns, calling them bad dressers who are “most sluttish, slouching, jeering, mischievous phantoms.

CO-ARB
The following passage is quoted from J.F. Kenny's Sources for the Early History of Ireland; by the eleventh century ... in the average church the abbot, generally known as the comharba (co-arb), heir, of the saintly founder, or, if it were not the saint's principal establishment, the airchinnech (erenagh), "head", had become a lay lord, whose family held the office and the church property from generation to generation ... In some cases, apparently, all trace of a church establishment had disappeared, except that the incumbant claimed for his lands the termonn of the ancient monastery, those privleges and exemptions which had from of old been accorded to ecclesiastical property; but generally the comharba or airchinnech maintained a priest.

COAT OF ARMS
A shield with certain distinctive symbols or emblems painted on it in definite fixed colors identifying one person and his direct descendants .

CODICIL
An addition to a will to change, explain, revoke or add provisions which overrule the provisions in the original will

COLLATERAL ANCESTOR
An ancestor not in the direct line of ascent, but of the same ancestral family, collateral families are the families with whom your ancestors intermarried and moved.

COLPORTEUR
A peddler of books.

COMMON SOCCAGE
Tenures of land held by a certain and fixed rent and without the burdens of lands held by a knights service in capite. Tenure in capite was an ancient tenure, whereby a knight held lands of the king at the king's pleasure and was responsible for all debts on the land to the crown.

COMPOSITION PAYMENTS
Yearly rents paid by agreement with the country in lieu of cess for soldiers within the provinces of Leinster, Ulster, Munster, Connacht and the Pale.

CONCEALMENTS
Lands that had been forfeited or escheated to the crown but which were being secretly denied.

CONJUGI
A husband, wife, or spouse

CONNUBIUM
Marriage

CONSANGUINITY
The degree of relationship between persons who descend from a common ancestor. Blood relationship. A father and son are related by lineal consanguinity, uncle and nehpew by collateral sanguinity.

CONSUMPTION
Tuberculosis.

COOPER
Makes and repairs barrels and casks

COPPICE KEEPER
One who takes care of small woods and glades.

CORDWAINER
A shoemaker or cobbler.

COURTS AND MILLS
The requirement that all tenants were to attend the lord's manor court and to grind all their grain at the lord's manorial mills, under pain of a fine. The fees for grinding at the mills accrued to the lord, although part of this charge was sometimes reduced by making grain hopper free or moulter free.

CRANAEGE TOLLS
Tolls paid for having goods officially weighed on a crane, scale or weigh-bridge. Most goods so weighed were sold in the local marketplace.

CROPPIES
The rebels of 1798.

CROUP
Laryngitis, diphtheria, or strep throat

CRUTHIN
The Cruthin or Cruithne were the Pictish people that inhabited Ireland before the arrival of the Gaels.

CUI
Of whom, of whose, of whatever person, of what place/country

CULLER
Gelder of male animals

CURRAGH
An ancient Irish boat made with a wicker frame, covered in hide, stitched with thongs. From 6 to 70-feet long.

CURRIER
Someone who tans leather; uses a curry comb on horses.

CURSITOR
Clerk of chancery who made out all the original writs.

CURTESY
The life tenure which by common law is held by a man over the property of his deceased wife and has by her children who are capable of inheriting her estate; in this case, on the death of his wife, he holds the lands for his life, as tenant by courtesy.

CUSTOS BREVIUM
Clerk of the court of common. pleas who was the keeper of the writs, etc.

CUSTOS ROTULORAM
Keeper of the rolls or records of the county.

CUTLER
One who makes or sells knives, etc.
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