Brehons Chair

Brehon's Chair (also known as Taylors Grange) is a sacred megalithic site in Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin , Ireland in the grounds of Glensouthwell. It is a national heritage site. The Grange Road is named after it.

The Brehon Laws were statutes that governed everyday life and politics in Ireland until the Norman invasion of 1171 (the word "Brehon" is an Anglicisation of breitheamh (earlier brithem), the Irish word for a judge). The laws were written in the Old Irish period (ca. 600 - 900 AD) and probably reflect the traditional laws of pre-Christian Ireland. These secular laws existed in parallel with, and sometimes in conflict with, Canon law throughout the early Christian period.

Basically, it's three 8.5 meter granite stones in the shape of a chair. The Brehon's Chair is believed to have been the seat of Judgement of the Arch Druid. When the settlement around the chair was excavated, flint tools were among the artefacts found there.

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