Crossword-Solution: CEILE 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Thus Abbot Moengal, who died in 871, was a "pilgrim." Abbot Moenach (died 921) was "the head of the learning of the island of Ireland." Ceile, coarb of Comgall, went on pilgrimage to Rome in 928, and died there in 929: he was a scribe and anchoret, apostolic doctor of all Ireland, and (if _C.S._ can be trusted) a bishop.

Every tribesman without exception owed _ceilsinne_ to the _ríg_, or chief, that is, he was bound to become his _ceile_, or vassal.

Flaiths and Bo-aires also let cattle to a _ceile_ who had none or not enough, and this was the most prevalent practice.

The Ceile of substance, who had lands of his own, seems to have been in an inferior position to the English freeholder; the Saer stock and Daer stock tenants held their lands by a tenure like that of the metayers of France; the Fuidhirs were kept in complete subjection, and had not even the rights of the villein.

Lanigan considers that the Culdees were first instituted in Ireland in the eighth or ninth century; and Aongus, surnamed Ceile De, a celebrated ecclesiastical writer of the eighth century, author of Lives of Irish Saints, etc., is supposed to have been a Culdee.