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As a republic, Ireland today does not grant or bestow titles of nobility. Yet, many Irish people are very familiar with titles of English derivation continuing in use by Irish citizens. These include persons styled as Duke, Viscount, Baron, etc. However, in the past 20 – 30 years, some groups (e.g., the Standing Council of Irish Chiefs and Chieftains – the SCICC), in attempting to raise awareness of, and cultural identification with, historic Gaelic Ireland, have made the public aware that ''Irish titles'' have existed for millennia, and continue to exist today, usually as family inheritances. There are Irishmen seated on the SCICC who are accurately and legitimately styled as Prince and Lord. Within the Gaelic nobility of Ireland, however, these titles were regarded as secondary, as the highest prestige belonged to the Gaelic title of Chief of the Name. These titles no longer attach to any territories. They are honorifics, or, in legal parlance, "incorporeal hereditaments." Any lands which historically related to any given title, have long since become simply footnotes in the history of the title. In some cases, historically provable Gaelic-Irish titles which resided (as incorporeal hereditaments) within the patrimony of Gaelic-Irish royal houses have been re-granted in modern times, in instances where the male line of the original title-holder(s) became extinct. ==History== The Lordship of Coshmaing (also spelled variously as "Cosmaigne," "Coshmang," "Cois Mainge," etc.) was created in the 14th century when the King of Desmond, Cormac MacCarthy Mór (d. 1359), granted an appanage〔Appanage – the grant of an estate, titles, offices, or other things of value to the younger (non-successor) male children of a sovereign.〕 to his third son, Eoghan. (NB: His second son, Diarmud, was granted the appanage of the Lordship of Muskerry.) Thus established the family/sept of Sliocht Eoghan (Owen) Mór of Coshmaing, which was located in today's County Kerry, Ireland, Barony of Magunihy, Province of Munster (see map). Butler described the inception of Coshmaing thusly: "...Eoghan was given the lordship of Coshmaing. This district stretched from the modern boundary of Cork across the northern and western parts of the barony of Magunihy to close to Castlemaine....";〔Butler; ''JRSAI''; 1920; p.43.〕 and, "The area of Coshmaing according to the Lambeth Survey was twenty-three quarters and a half and a third of a quarter.... Sir William Herbert estimates the area of Coshmaing at 88 ploughlands, and an inquisition of 1634 gives it as 105 ploughlands."〔Butler; ''JCHAS''; 1928; p.4.〕 "Coshmaing was a frontier district, forming a barrier between the lands of the Geraldines and the rest of the Kerry lands of the MacCarthys. In the same way Muskerry formed a frontier barrier to the east,, and Duhallow to the north-east against the foreigner." 〔Butler; ''JRSAI''; 1920; p.43.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lordship of Coshmaing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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