During the medieval period, the most prominent legal family in County Clare was the O’Davoren, or Ó Duibhdábhoireann, a minor Gaelic gentry sept who ran a celebrated school of fénechas (native law) at Cahermacnaghten in the Burren. As well as being famous jurists and scholars, the O’Davorens served as hereditary brehons to the O’Loghlen family.
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