[caption id="attachment_1393" align="alignnone" width="334" caption="Clontarf"][/caption] Above: Illustrating picture about Battle of Clontarf Public Councils or assemblies met from time to time also, and anyone dissatisfied with the verdict of the courts or suffering under some other grievance was free to bring his case before these assemblies. The more important of them were known as the Sabaid Cuirmthighe, Meitheal Flatha, Meitheal Tuatha, Dail, Aonach, Mathshluagh, Tocomrac, Feis, Clann, and so on. The fine of a lord constituted a clann in its limited sense. Clann in its ... Read More