697 AD
Cáin Adomnáin or Law of the Innocents
Law & constitutions · Protección, religión y procedimiento
Cáin Adomnáin was promulgated in 697 at the Synod of Birr according to the Annals of Ulster and related sources. It protected women, children, and clerics from specified violence, though the surviving treatise is later and not a copy of the original legislative text.
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- 2026-09-23
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