The O’Davoren Law School, The Burren, County Clare

The O’Davoren Law School, The Burren, County Clare

During the medieval period, the most prominent legal family in County Clare was the O’Davoren, or Ó Duibhdábhoireann, a minor Gaelic gentry sept who ran a celebrated school of fénechas (native law) at Cahermacnaghten in the Burren. As well as being famous jurists and...