Brehon law was produced in the vernacular language by a group of professional jurists.
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Ireland had no regular central authority capable of making new law and hence the Brehon laws were entirely in the hands of the jurists.
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Early Irish law consisted of the accumulated decisions of the Brehons, or judges, guided entirely by an oral tradition.
Tuileagna was a member of the Ó Maolconaire Brehon family, but it has proved difficult for researchers to uncover more detail about him.
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Ó Corcrán bore a surname held by at least two unrelated clans; one was a Brehon family from County Fermanagh, a second was situated in Munster.
He was the Son of Servreagh O'Folan, and appears to have also had two brothers who were also brehon lawyers.