Brehon is the term in the Irish Celtic culture for a judge. The Brehons were part of the system of Brehon Law . In 13th century Ireland women were able to exercise this function, as well as other functions. The Brehons wore yellow robes when delivering verdicts. Category Early Gaelic law Category Judges ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Image Brehon s chair.jpg thumb 200px right Brehon s Chair Brehon s Chair also known as Taylors Grange is a sacred megalithic site in Rathfarnham , County Dublin , Republic of Ireland Ireland in the grounds of Danesmoate House . It is a national heritage site. The Grange Road is named after it. The Brehon Laws were statutes that governed everyday life and politics in Ireland until the Normans Norman invasion of 1171 the word Brehon is an Anglicisation of breitheamh earlier brithem , the Irish language Irish word for a judge . The laws were written in the Old Irish period ca. 600 900 AD and probably reflect the traditional laws of pre Christian Ireland. These secular laws existed in parallel with, and sometimes in conflict with, Canon law Catholic Church Canon law throughout the early Christian period. The monument comprises three 8.5 meter granite stones in the shape of a chair. The Brehon s Chair is believed to have been the seat of Judgement of the Arch druid . When the settlement around the chair was excavated, flint tools were among the artefacts found there. This stone passage tomb is often misunderstood to have been a chair, as is often told in local history. However, excavations have found it to have been a passage tomb similar to that of Newgrange found in Boyne Valley. The two side stones were a basic door frame with the rear stone being the door or portal stone. These remaining features of the tomb entrance now give the impression of a large seat. coord 53.267832 N 6.264777 W type landmark region IE display title Category Rathfarnham Dublin geo stub ... more details
Infobox military person name Brehon Burke Somervell born birth date 1892 5 9 df yes died death date and age 1955 2 13 1892 5 9 df yes placeofbirth Little Rock, Arkansas placeofdeath Ocala, Florida image File Brehon Somervell.jpg caption General Brehon Burke Somervell nickname Bill allegiance United States United States of America branch United States Army serviceyears 1914&ndash 1946 rank File US O10 insignia.svg 35px General United States General commands Army Service Forces unit United States Army Corps of Engineers Corps of Engineers battles Pancho Villa Expedition br World War I br World War II awards Distinguished Service Cross United States Distinguished Service Cross br Distinguished Service Medal United States Distinguished Service Medal 3 br Legion of Merit 2 ref harvnb Ancell and Miller 1996 pp 301 302 ref relations laterwork President of Koppers Brehon Burke Somervell 9 May 1892 &ndash 13 February 1955 was a General officer General in the United States Army and Commanding General of the Army Service Forces in World War II . As such he was responsible for the U.S. Army s logistics. Following his death, the Washington Post lauded him as one of the ablest officers the United States Army has produced. ref name Vogel 2007 358 harvnb Vogel 2007 p 358 ref Somervell graduated near the top of his United States Military Academy class of 1914 and was commissioned officer commissioned in the United States Army United States Army Corps of Engineers Corps of Engineers . During World ... arm of the United States Army. Early life Brehon Burke Somervell was born on 9 May 1892 in Little ... all five to create the best management obtainable. source Brehon Somervell ref harvnb Ohl ... The USAT General Brehon B. Somervell , a US Army Reserve logistics support vessel that can carry up ... location New York City isbn 0812973259 good article Persondata NAME Somervell, Brehon B. ALTERNATIVE ... Ocala, Florida DEFAULTSORT Somervell, Brehon Burke Category 1892 births Category 1955 deaths Category ... more details
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Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date February 2009 In Irish mythology , Ain and her sister wrote the Brehon Laws which protected the rights of women. DEFAULTSORT Ain Mythology Category Irish mythology Celt myth stub et Ain iiri m toloogia ... more details
Baethgalach Mac Aodhag in , Professor of Law , died 1399. Baethghalach was a member of a family Mac Aodhag in originally from what is now County Galway but who had spread to many parts of Ireland by the end of the 14th century in response to the demand for their services as Brehon s. Under the year 1399, the Annals of Lough Ce note the death of Baethghalach, where he is termed the ollamh brehon of Ui Fiachrach and Ui Amhalghaidh , that is, Professor of Law for what is now all of north County Mayo . External links http www.ucc.ie celt published T100010B index.html DEFAULTSORT Mac Aodhag in, Baethgalach Category Medieval Gaels Category Irish lawyers Category 14th century Irish people Category People from County Mayo Category People from County Galway ... more details
Somervell may refer to Arthur Somervell 1863 1937 , a British composer Brehon B. Somervell 1892 1955 , an American general D. C. Somervell 1885 1965 , a British historian Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow 1889 1960 , a British judge and Conservative politician Howard Somervell 1890 1975 , a British explorer William Somervell 1860 1934 , a British Liberal politician Surname Somervell ... more details
Unreferenced date November 2009 Keeper of the Chronicles is a fictional title that exists in Robert Jordan s The Wheel of Time Wheel of Time Series. Although second in authority to the Amyrlin, the Keeper of the Chronicles has no real authority over Aes Sedai, except what the Amyrlin Seat chooses to give her. She also acts as the Amyrlin s secretary . The Keeper is chosen for life by the Hall of the Tower , usually from the same Aes Sedai Ajahs Ajah as the Amyrlin. Some Keeper of the Chronicles Leane Sharif Tarna Feir Alviarin Freidhen Sheriam Bayanar Gitara Moroso Aeldra Najaf Silviana Brehon Wotnav DEFAULTSORT Keeper Of The Chronicles Category The Wheel of Time Fantasy stub it Custode degli Annali ... more details
Wikify date December 2010 Brigh Brigaid , also spelled as Briugaid , or Brughaidh , flourished circa AD 50, Ireland was a woman who held office as a brehon , or judge, in Ireland in the 1st century AD. ref name Brooklyn Brooklyn Museum ref A brehon arbitrated disputes and interpreted the law. Brigh is mentioned in the Brehon Senchas M.C3.A1r Senchus M r , a compendium of the ancient laws of Ireland ref name Brooklyn ref Technovate ref and her decisions were cited as precedents for centuries after her death. ref Joyce ref Notes Reflist References cite web url http www.brooklynmuseum.org eascfa dinner party heritage floor brigh brigaid.php title Brigh Brigaid date March 10, 2007 work Dinner party database of notable women publisher Brooklyn Museum accessdate 2009 08 31 cite book last O Sullivan first Patrick title Irish women and Irish migration publisher Leicester University Press year 1995 pages 20 isbn 0718514254 url http books.google.com books?id rkcWAQAAIAAJ&q 22Brigh Brigaid 22&dq 22Brigh Brigaid 22&ei xumbSu jCoqukATunbF0 cite web url http technovate.org web etext LOL.html title LIBERTY ORDER & LAW Under Native Irish Rule date September 2006 publisher Technovate.org pages Chapter 1 accessdate 2009 08 31 cite book last Joyce first P.W. title A Social History of Ancient Ireland Treating of the Government, Military system, and Law Religion, Learning, and Art Trades, Industries, and Commerce Manners, Customs, and Domestic Life, of the Ancient Irish People publisher M. H. Gill & Son year 1903 chapter Chapter 12 SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC LIFE url http www.archive.org stream socialhistory2nd02joycuoft socialhistory2nd02joycuoft djvu.txt Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Brigaid,Brigh ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Brigaid,Brigh Category 1st century births Category 1st century Irish people Category Ancient Irish people Category Ancient Irish women Category Irish judges Ireland law bi ... more details
Orphan date October 2010 Gilla na Naem Mac Aodhag in , Professor of Jurisprudence , died 1401. Gilla na Naem was a member of a family Mac Aodhag in originally from what is now County Galway but who had spread to many parts of Ireland by the end of the 14th century in response to the demand for their services as Brehon s. Under the year 1401, the Annals of Lough Ce notes his death, describing him as the judge ollam of the U Failghe and Cenel Fiachach. County Offaly now comprises most of what was once the Kingdom of U Failghe . External links http www.ucc.ie celt published T100010B index.html DEFAULTSORT Mac Aodhagain, Gilla Na Naem Category Medieval Gaels Category Irish lawyers Category 14th century Irish people Category 15th century Irish people Category People from County Offaly Category People from County Galway Category Medieval Irish writers ... more details
Orphan date October 2010 Gilla na Naemh Mac Aodhag in , Professor of Judiciary , died 1399. Gilla na Naemh was a member of a family Mac Aodhag in originally from what is now County Galway but who had spread to many parts of Ireland by the end of the 14th century in response to the demand for their services as Brehon s. Under the year 1399, the Annals of Lough Ce notes his death, describing him as the ollam h of the East of Mumha Ormond in judicature . It was probably within his lifetime that the family first established itself in Ormond, Redwood Castle in what is now County Tipperary being gifted to the family in the late 1300s. External links http www.ucc.ie celt published T100010B index.html DEFAULTSORT Mac Aodhagain, Gilla Na Naemh Category Medieval Gaels Category Irish lawyers Category 14th century Irish people Category People from County Tipperary Category People from County Galway Category Medieval Irish writers ... more details
The Taillten Fair was an annual event held in medieval times at Telltown , County Meath , Ireland . The fair was a survival or revival of the enach Tailteann , the assembly and funeral games for the goddess Tailtiu , and was held on Lughnasadh , aka Lammas Eve, August 1st . For a period of time in the twentieth century, the fair was revived as the Telltown Games. The Fair was a time for contests of strength and skill, horse races, religious celebrations, and a traditional time for couples to contract year and a day trial marriages. Taillten marriages were legal up until the 13th century. This trial marriage practice is documented in the fourth and fifth volumes of the Brehon law texts, which are compilations of the opinions and judgements of the Brehon class of Druids in this case, Irish . The texts as a whole deal with a copious amount of detail for the Insular Celts. ref O Donovan, J., O Curry, E., Hancock, W. N., O Mahony, T., Richey, A. G., Hennessy, W. M., & Atkinson, R. eds. 2000 . Ancient laws of Ireland, published under direction of the Commissioners for Publishing the Ancient Laws and Institutes of Ireland. Buffalo, New York W.S. Hein. ISBN 1 57588 572 7. Originally published Dublin A. Thom, 1865 1901. Alternatively known as Hiberniae leges et institutiones antiquae . ref See also Handfasting Tailtiu Tailteann Games Sources reflist Lewis Spence , The History and Origins of Druidism & Elizabeth Pepper and John Wilcock , Magical and Mystical Sites Category History of County Meath Category Druidry Ireland hist stub Paganism stub ... more details
The Great Charter of Ireland also known as the Magna Charta Hiberniae was an issue of the kingdom of England English Magna Carta Magna Carta, or Great Charter of Liberties in Ireland . King Henry III of England s Charter of 1216 was issued for Ireland on 12 November 1216 but not transmitted to Ireland until February 1217 it secured rights for the Anglo Norman magnates in Ireland but not the Irish ref Art Cosgrove A New History of Ireland, Volume II Medieval Ireland 1169 1534 Oxford University Press 1987 p152 ref . The Charter was reissued in 1217 as in England. Although it was in effect the application of the Magna Carta to Ireland, with appropriate substitutions such as Dublin for London , and Irish Church for Church of England , the charter also incorporated aspects of Brehon Laws Brehon Law Citation needed date July 2010 . The only known copy of the Charter was once to be found in the Red Book of the Dublin Court of Exchequer , an MS volume compiled in the fourteenth century. The Red Book was destroyed in the Irish Public Records Office explosion at the Four Courts in Dublin , in 1922, but the Charter had been recorded by H. F. Berry in Early Statutes of Ireland 1907 . The Great Charter of Ireland 1216 1 Hen. 3 is now a retained statute under the Statute Law Revision Act 2007 , s2.2 a Schedule 1. References Reflist External links http ua tuathal.tripod.com magna.html Magna Charta Hiberniae 1216 Great Charter of Ireland http oll.libertyfund.org Home3 HTML.php?recordID 0346 William Sharp McKechnie, Historical Introduction to Magna Carta 1914 http www.irishstatutebook.ie 2007 en act pub 0028 Statute Law Revision Act 2007 Further reading Early Statutes of Ireland H. F. Berry 1907 Magna Charta Hiberniae H.G. Richardson Irish Historical Studies pp31 33, 1942 DEFAULTSORT Great Charter of Ireland Category 1216 in law Category Irish laws Category Legal history of Ireland Category 1216 in Europe Category 13th century in Ireland Category Medieval charters and cartularies ... more details
Under Brehon Laws Brehon Law Gavelkind , also known as partible inheritance , ref cite book last Connolly S.J title The Oxford Companion to Irish History publisher Oxford University Press date 1998 page 219 isbn 0192116959 ref was a species of tribal succession, by which the land was divided at the death of the holder amongst his sons. Illegitimate sons, but not daughters, were included in the division.The Normans gave this Irish inheritance law the name Gavelkind due to its apparent similarity to Saxon Gavelkind inheritance in Kent . Often the father prescribed the division before his death. A variant occurred whereby the youngest son divided the land into equal parts. The eldest chose first, followed by the second and so on until the youngest received the remaining land. In 1703 in Ireland 1703 , in the reign of Anne of Great Britain Queen Anne , a law was enacted List of Acts of the Parliament of Ireland, 1701 to 1800 2 Anne 1703 2 Anne c6 Ir , which is commonly known as the Popery Act Gavelkind Act . ref name AL Andrew Lyall Land Law in Ireland ISBN 1 85800 199 4 ref The aim was to ensure that, when a Catholic died, his estate was divided equally among his sons, unless the eldest son converted to the Protestant faith whereby he could inherit all the land. The law was intended to reduce the size, and therefore influence, of Catholic landed estates. ref name AL References references Robinson, On Gavelkind Digby, History of the Law of Real Property Pollock and Frederic William Maitland F. W. Maitland , History of English Law Challis, Real Property . See also Derbfine Gavelkind Category Inheritance Category Legal history of Ireland Ireland law stub ... more details
Tullyhaw lang ga Teallach Eathach which means The Territory of Eochaidh , an ancestor of the McGoverns is a Baronies of Ireland Barony in County Cavan . The area has been in constant occupation since pre 4000 B.C. In 1579 in Ireland 1579 East Breifne , then part of Connacht , was made a shire. The shire was named Cavan lang ga An Cabhain after the area s main town. The administration remained in the control of the local Irish dynasty and subject to the Brehon Laws Brehon and Canon Law Canon Law. In 1584 in Ireland 1584 John Perrot Perrott formed the shire into a county in Ulster . It was subdivided into seven Baronies of Ireland baronies two of which were assigned to Sir John O Reilly and three to other members of the family two remaining, possessed by the Sept social septs of McKiernan and McGovern aka Magauran The last one, Tullyhaw, encompassed the mountains bordering on Breifne O Rourke s country , and was left subject to the ancient tenures and exactions of their Irish lord. Parishes Templeport Ballymagauran Bawnboy Swanlinbar is positioned on an important route between the pre Norman kingdoms of the Connachta and the Ulad . It is dominated by steep mountains shaped during the last Ice Age over 12,000 years ago Magh Sl cht Tomregan Ballyconnell Killinagh Kinawley People Tigernmas , List of High Kings of Ireland High King of Ireland killed at Magh Sl cht Conall Cernach killed near Ballyconnell Conall Gulban killed at Magh Sl cht Dallan Forgaill John McGovern soldier John McGovern VC Se n Quinn References references 1911 coord missing County Cavan Category Geographic history of Ireland Category Geography of County Cavan Category History of County Cavan Category Baronies of Ireland Cavan geo stub ... more details
Mac Aodhag in was the name of an Irish family of Brehon s who were hereditary lawyers firstly to the Conchobhair Kings of Connacht , and later to the Burkes of Clanricarde . ref name oxf cite book title Oxford Concise Companion to Irish Literature last Welch first Robert coauthors Stewart, Bruce year 1996 publisher Oxford University Press isbn 0192800809 page 325 url http books.google.com books?id vDsAaXKLGvYC&pg PA325&lpg PA325&dq 22hereditary lawyers 22 egan&source bl&ots tFJZ3 srHV&sig Q7y3c9S Q9GDVLjmmt5NUSfLVAM&hl en&ei rpjITOGtKqKT4gaelvHlBg&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 5&ved 0CDIQ6AEwBA v onepage&q 22hereditary 20lawyers 22 20egan&f false accessdate 27 October 2010 ref ref cite journal author Simms, Katharine year 2000 title The Poetic Brehon Lawyers Of Early Sixteenth Century Ireland journal University of California Celtic Conference url http www.humnet.ucla.edu humnet celtic 22papers simms.pdf search Aodh ref The earliest surviving Irish law manuscript, In Senchas M r , was written prior to 1350 at a school patronised by the Mac Aodhag in at Duniry , near Loughrea . ref name oxf Other branches of the clann maintained schools at Park, outside Tuam , and at Ballymacegan in County Tipperary Co. Tipperary . ref http www.clanegan.org aodhagain.htm ClanEgan.org Mac Aodhagain MacEgan ref The work known as Leabhar Breac was produced by one of their students, while Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh may have studied at Ballymacegan under Flann Mac Aodhag in up to the year 1643 . Citation needed date November 2010 The surname is now rendered in a variety of ways, including as Mac Egan , Egan , Eagan , Keegan , Keigan , McKiegan , and McKagan . ref cite book title The book of Irish families, great & small last O Laughlin first Michael C authorlink coauthors year 2002 publisher Irish Roots Cafe isbn 0940134098 page 96 url http books.google.com books?id mZt3oGtk1KgC&pg PA96 ... origin Category Irish Brehon families Category Irish language surnames Ireland stub ... more details
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Unreferenced date December 2009 Danesmoate House formerly known as Glensouthwell or Glen Southwell is a Georgian architecture Georgian style monumental house in the greater Rathfarnham area of County Dublin , Ireland . Location Grange Road continues for nearly a mile to skirt the boundary wall of Marlay Park as far as the crossroads at Taylors Grange beyond which it terminates at a group of farmhouses where there was formerly an old passage leading to Stackstown . On the right the road to Kilmashogue passes the entrance to Danesmoate where there is the valley of the Little Dargle River , a tributary of the River Dodder which rises near the Ticknock rifle range. History The house was built in the 18th century by the Southwell family and in 1787 was the residence of Captain United Kingdom Captain Dn William Southwell . Throughout the following century it was occupied by the Ponsonby s, down to 1896 and later by Professor Stanley Lane Poole , the author of a number of works on Oriental art and numismatics. For many years down to 1946 it was the home of Lieutenant Algernon Gainsford of the Seaforth Highlanders . In 1986, the house was the site of recording by rock music rock band U2 for their album The Joshua Tree . Bassist Adam Clayton currently owns the house. Features The Brehon s Chair Within the grounds, in a field visible from the road, is an ancient monument known as the Brehon s Chair , consisting of three tall slabs about nine feet high enclosing a small square space. There was formerly another large slab supported by smaller ones lying to the north east but this was unfortunately destroyed about 1876 by blasting. The existing remains are apparently the portal portion of a dolmen type of tomb and the stones which were removed would have been part of the destroyed chamber. A similar type of portal can be seen on a dolmen at Haroldstown in Co. Carlow . Constructions Beside the Little Dargle is the remains of a tall narrow tower of which only one wall is now stand ... more details
Servreagh O Folan , Irish people Irish Brehon , fl. 1585 . O Folan was a member of a minor bardic family resident in Connemara Conmha cne Mara in the 16th century. They served as lawyers to members of the O Flaherty Flaithbheartaigh s and other families in the region, but were also a land owning and merchant family connected with The Tribes of Galway . Servreagh O Folan is listed as a Gentleman on a number of fiant in the 1580s. The Composition of Connacht of 1585 listed him as a landowner in Moyrus in the Barony of Ballynahinch, County Galway . He appears to have been a relative of Nehemias Follane of the Newtone, Gentleman, also a landowner. In a document titled Carta Dermot hAllmhur in Dermicci O Halloran, A.D. 1594 , written in Latin, he is described as in Christo Nehemian Ffolan, generosum, meum attornatum . Other bearers of the name Other O Folan s from County Galway included Eugenius Faol in , Bishop of Kilmacduagh from 1409 to 1418 and then Bishop of Killaloe 1418 1431 . Sorrell Folone was active during the Irish Rebellion of 1641 , and was mentioned as one of the group of men led by Colonel Edmond O Flaherty at the siege of Tromroe Castle in County Clare. Ferdindo Follin of Moyrus, Carna, County Galway , listed in 1656 as owner of parcels of lands consisting of 3,678 acres 14.88 km2 , and 193 acres 0.78 km2 . His lands were confiscated for rebellious activities and distributed to Sir Thomas Meredith and Richard Martin of Ballynahinch. Patrick Folan Galway , killed at the Battle of Inkermann 5 November 1854, during the Crimean War 5 . Cormac Folan of Barna represented Ireland in Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics Men s coxless four, at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Tony Folan was an Irish footballer during the 1990s and 2000s. He represented Ireland at every level up to Under 21 and B . See also Brehon Folan References reflist A History of West or H Iar Connacht Ruaidhr Flaithbheartaigh , Irish Archeological Society, Dublin, 1846 Books of survey and distribution ... more details
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