Royal Order of Eri
The Royal Order of Eri is a small invitational body described publicly as drawing from senior SRIA membership and using Irish legendary and chivalric material. Current official information is not readily available, so exact grades, locations and meeting claims should be treated as unverified until confirmed by the Order.
Reported history, carefully labelled
The archival account reports several origin traditions, including an asserted eighteenth-century transmission and a nineteenth-century revival. It presents these as claims and purported records rather than supplying independent archival proof. [1]
The responsible conclusion is modest: Eri appears in later Rosicrucian and fringe-degree networks, while its deeper institutional continuity remains unresolved in the public evidence. [1]
Eligibility is not safely inferred
The available description reports invitation from SRIA members at or above a specified grade. Without a current official source, that threshold should not be published as a guaranteed present rule or used to approach members indiscriminately. [1]
Meeting frequency, active Chapters and costs are likewise not reliably established. An authorised invitation or current Order document is the appropriate evidence. [1]
Who may value it
If active under the reported model, Eri is relevant only to experienced SRIA members with a particular interest in Irish legendary history. It is not a practical early route from Craft.
SRIA itself offers a much clearer study-led proposition, current membership route and public College structure. The Royal Order of Scotland offers independently documented governance for a different selective Scottish Christian system. [1]
Its obscurity is an evidence limitation, not proof of antiquity, prestige or a hidden position above SRIA.