Note 74 — Chapter IV · TRIBAL CUSTOM OF THE IRISH TRIBES.
Reading edition
Dr. Atkinson has kindly given me a reference to MS. H. 3-18, 237 and 485, the former of which ends its paragraph on ‘sencleithe’ thus:—‘If he serve from that onward, till the fifth man come and during the time (his time?), then he is a sencleithe and he cannot go from the heirs [comarba] for ever after.’