seniory

Updated: May 31, 2025

Instead of completing their stipulated number of tenantry, the same persons often were admitted as tenants to different undertakers, and in the same seniory sometimes served at once as freeholder, leaseholder, and copyholder, so as to fill up the necessary number of each denomination. The whole scheme of colonization proved, in short, a miserable failure.

Emily Lawless - The Story of Ireland