Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

    Judges were called brehons; and the law they administered is, therefore, now commonly known as the ” Brehon Law.”* To become a brehon a person had to go through a regular, well-defined course oftraining. The brehons were a very influential class of men, and those attached to chiefs had free lands for their maintenance. [...]

Above : Brehon Laws (Inzet : St. Patrick) The oldest Gaelic MSS. that we have, date from this period. They, however, are not literature, but are in the form of ” glosses.” These were not written in Ireland, but in the numerous monasteries established by Irish missionaries in Britain and Europe. They consist of notes [...]