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EstablishedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0386 · as of 2026-10-27 · about: Gaelic Ireland under Brehon law · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team

“English authorities tried to stop settlers using Irish law in the Statutes of Kilkenny (1366), but brehon law remained in use in Gaelic and Gaelicised lordships until the Tudor conquest, and brehons survived among the Irish until the early seventeenth century.”

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