Eorlcundman

The eorlcundman was generally, though not necessarily, a freeholder;

The eorlcundman is worth his high wergild even if he be landless: the ceorl may attain to thegn-right and yet his children to the third generation will not be gesithcund.

And so, to Inisfallen and Cashel came the sons of the kings and sub-kings of Munster; and the sons of the privileged, although not royal, classes of airigh – the flatha, owners of landed property and counterparts of the eorls or eorlcundmen of later Anglo-Saxon times;