num_pages: 311
description: In the sixteenth century as it is now the Burren on the western seaboard of Ireland was a land of gray stone forts fields of rich green grass and swirling mountain terraces. It was also home to an independent kingdom that lived peacefully by the ancient Brehon laws of their forebears.On the first eve of May 1509 hundreds of people from the Burren climbed the gouged-out limestone terraces of Mullaghmore Mountain to celebrate the great May Day festival lighting a bonfire and singing and dancing through the night then returning through the gray dawn to the safety of their homes. But one man did not come back down the steeply spiralling path. His body lay exposed to the ravens and wolves on the bare lonely mountain for two nights . . . and no one spoke of him or told what they had seen.And when Mara a woman appointed by King Turlough Don OBrien to be judge and lawgiver to the stony kingdom came to investigate she was met with a wall of silence . . .
language: English
title: My Lady Judge
publisher: Minotaur Books