page_title: O'Davoren
hierarchical_section_title: O'Davoren
caption_attribution_description: Burren, Cty. Clare, Ireland This object is indexed in the Archaeological Survey of Ireland under SMR No. CL009-001010-Geographic information system of the National Monuments Service: Historic Environment Viewer – Database record. Deutsch&#160;| English&#160;| français&#160;| italiano&#160;| македонски&#160;| +/− English: Ruins of a stone fort that was used by the 17th-century law school of Donal O'Davoren. A close signpost reads: This stone fort may have been built sometime in the Early Christian period. In the 17th century it was the home of the O'Davoren Law School where the famous genealogist Duald Mac Firbis studied under Donal O'Davoren. Known as O'Davoren's Town in 1675, it consisted then of a large house and a kitchen inside the walls as well as a 'house of the churchyard' and gardens outside. (Comment: It appears to be improbable that Duald Mac Firbis studied at this school under Donal O'Davoren, see James F. Kenney: The Sources for the Early History of Ireland: Ecclesiastical, p. 35.)
context_page_description: The O'Davoren family were a scholarly clan of Corcomroe, Thomond, Ireland active since medieval times.
  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. Many acted as brehons for the local ruling dynasty of Uí Loughlin from the 14th century or earlier.
context_section_description: The O'Davoren (Irish: Ó Duibhdábhoireann) family were a scholarly clan of Corcomroe, Thomond (modern-day County Clare), Ireland active since medieval times. 
  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.  Many acted as brehons for the local ruling dynasty of Uí Loughlin from the 14th century or earlier.
caption: Ruins of the O'Davoren law school at Cahermacnaghten, County Clare
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