n
m. g
s. n
p. -a. Not found in O.Ir. Etymology doubtful;
Stokes in preface to
Three Hom.
suggests a formation from
Lat. reclusum, i.e. a recluse's cell; later in Lism. Lives Index,
from ro-eccles (<
ecclesia
), i.e. a large church. Also written
reglés:
rigles,
BColm. 18.21
,
ZCP xii 393.33
;
reidhglés,
Ériu v
84.16
.
(a) orig. an oratory or small church
built by an Irish saint
for his own use; sometimes used to include the plot or enclosure about it. ó tharnic in recles do chumtach ┐ ro fhás a fér, rucc
gilla Dáre a ech isin recles (= ecclesiam),
Lat. Lives 61.12
(
LB 28a57
), cf. tuctha dá ech Dare inna recles for fér, ar rob
férach ind relec (= in oraculum),
15.2
.
do bhúain crand do
cumhdach reclesa,
Lism. L. 2585
(of an oratory built by St.
Findian).
teora bliadna boí cen lés | Colum ina dubreclés,
LU 652
(
ACC 24 Comm.
).
Cainneach a nDoire do grēs | is
Brenaind 'sa duibriglēs,
ZCP xii 393.33
. pl.
mo roilge, mo
roiglēs-[s]a,
ib. 34
.
Hence a monastic cell
, the hut occupied by an Irish monk
in a coenobitic settlement, and in general an anchorite's cell:
is uathad nech díb téged as a recles acht mad don eclais
(= extra cellulam suam),
Lat. Lives 92.16
, cf.
96.13
,
97.3
.
issé [Oengus] no chanad a thṡalmu . . . .l. isind abhaind . . .
.l. dano fón ṁbile feissin ┐ .l. ina reicles,
Fél. 10 z
.
reccles
diamhuir derrit . . . oen-mac [ec]ulsa . . . ic cantain a
urnuighthe innti,
RC xiv 58 § 72
.
it' recles (reiclis v.l.) oc
ernaigdi,
Ériu iii 108 § 49
(Rule of Ailbe).
téid an inghen la
Mochuda ┐ dogní reclés di hi cCluain Dalláin,
BNnÉ 296 § 29
(= construxit cellam,
V. SS. Hib. i 185.33
).
dochuadar fo hErind
. . . ┐ ro gabsatt cellae ┐ reclesae,
BColm. 8.23
. Loosely used
to include buildings and ground of a community: ni tharla bó
isin recleis ind inbhaidh sin (of Brigid's community),
Lism. L.
1369
. In fig. sense: reclés Hérenn Glenn Dá Locha `Abbey-church' (i.e. monastic centre),
Triads 11
.
Later used generally of a church connected with a monastery or of the monastery or abbey itself. ? In annals, a small conventual reliquary church
(
Peritia xiii 259-75
):
gur bennaigh
reiccles riaghalta,
Anecd. iii 3.3
. gan leabhair náid mionna i
reighléis ná i mainistir `abbey-church',
Keat. iii 2768
.
don
recles re nabarthar Senboth Átha,
BNnÉ 216.1
= ad monasterium,
V. SS. Hib. ii 149 x
.
Dunadhach in reiclesa Coluim Cille i
nArd Macha,
AU 1010
.
la aba[i]d reiclesa Poil ┐ Petair i nArd
Macha,
ii 242.5
. celloir mor-reiclesa Daire `manciple of the
monastery of D.',
256.6
.
Ard Macha do losccadh . . . idon na
huile reiclesa ┐ in[n]a huile tempaill . . . cenmotha reicles
Brighti,
194.18
(`the houses of Canons Regular', MacCarthy);
cf.
AFM iii 48.1
. Ecclesiastical enclosure, subsiduary enclosure within a larger settlement:
in reclés .i. in n-eclais mbicc,
Trip. 970
.
conaitigir Pátraic ined a reclésa fair,
2700
.
dair mor Reglesa Fingin,
CS 256.2 (s.a. 1013)
.
In wider sense of a church or chapel in general:
reigless
onorach,
Fl. Earls 40.11
(of a chapel in a castle of the king of
Spain).
reccles,
34.20
=
sepel,
ib. 6
.
(b) in follg. exx. used of a tomb
(perh. through influence of
reilec):
isin ecluis tucad inud a reclésa do . . . ┐ is and ro
hadnuiced é,
Laws i 204.15
.
bid tosach deg-[g]rēsa dam |
reclēsa na rig-apstal,
ZCP xii 397.12
(poem on the graves of
the Apostles, called `reilgi' elsewhere in it).