Posted by Coleman A. Dennehy, 13 March 2022
Whilst many aspects of the state as we would understand it today were more likely under-developed if they existed at all, the gaol was actually a reasonably prominent and regular feature of the medieval English state in Ireland. Places of strength, designed to hold an individual before their trial or after their trial whilst they awaited punishment, are likely to have been a feature of most English towns, cities, and counties in Ireland since the earliest decades of the development of English law in the early years of the thirteenth century, if not earlier.[1]
However, it is noteworthy that places of incarceration or detention were not a prominent feature of medieval Gaelic law in Ireland. The brehon legal system dealing with what we might today consider crime was one which was primarily a system of torts, whereby those wronged (or their…
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