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And the extent of the termon of your see from God is to Droma-Bregh, and to Sliabh-Mis, and to
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Next year he convoked a great synod of the province at Tuam in which it was decreed to unite the termon lands of the monasteries to their respective bishoprics.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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Many of these abthains passed into the hands of laymen, and were transmitted from father to son: They paid certain ecclesiastical tributes, and seem to have closely resembled the termon lands of the early Irish Church.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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A.nals tell us that in that year Turlough O'Conor, king of Connaught, invaded Desmond, and "arrived at the termon of Lismore" (_A. I._ say that he destroyed Lismore, which can hardly be true).
St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh of Clairvaux Bernard 1899
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Even the churches were not spared by him, for he laid waste the termon-lands of Clonmacnois, "up to the church door."
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864
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