O'Davoren
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The O'Davoren (
Famed for their sponsorship of schools and knowledge of history and Early Irish law, the Uí Dhuibh dá Bhoireann were known throughout Ireland as a literary family and held estates in the Burren down to the mid seventeenth century at the time of the Cromwellian confiscations.[1] Many acted as brehons for the local ruling dynasty of Uí Loughlin from the 14th century or earlier.
Origins
The O'Davorens, like the O'Hehirs and some other
According to historian C. Thomas Cairney, the O'Davorens were a chiefly family of the
Excavation
The O'Davoren law school at Cahermacnaghten has been the subject of archaeological and historical interest and its remains are still extant. The law school operated in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, with a Giolla na Naomh Óg Ó Duibh dá Bhoireann being recorded as one of its chief owners in the seventeenth century. The O'Davorens's were recorded as still holding Cahermacnaghten in 1659, along with 13 Irish tenants.[3]
Literary production
The most important surviving document associated with them is known as
See also
- Pre-Norman invasion Irish Celtic kinship groups, from whom many of the modern Irish surnames came from
References
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 10 May 2007.
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- ^ "1659 Census of Clare – Barony of Burren". Clarelibrary.ie. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
Oxford Concise Companion to Irish Literature, Robert Welsh, 1996.
External links
- http://www.nuigalway.ie/archaeology/documents/fitzpatrick_report_on_burren_field_school_for_celt.pdf[permanent dead link]
- Síaburcharpat Conculaind (The Phantom Chariot of Cúchulainn) from Egerton 88 at CELT
- http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/places/townlands/cahermacnaghten.htm
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150712072310/http://www.heritagecouncil.ie/fileadmin/user_upload/INSTAR_Database/Burren_Landscape_and_Settlement_Final_Report_08.pdf