chief justice of Connacht was the senior of the judges who assisted the Lord President of Connaught in judicial matters. Despite the chief justice's title...

Chief Justice of Connacht in 1577, in which office he gained a reputation for integrity, and was suggested as a possible Lord Chief Justice of Ireland...

court of Connacht in 1662 and became the last Chief Justice of Connacht in 1670. On the abolition of that office in 1672 he was appointed a justice of the...

Roscommon Castle. In 1662 he became Chief Justice of Connacht, and made a valuable ally in the Lord President of Connaught, Lord Berkeley. As a judge...

to the House of Commons in 1634. In 1627 he became third justice of Connacht and was promoted to the office of Chief Justice of Connacht in 1634. He owed...

of Chief Justice of Connacht; a step which was generally seen as a demotion on the ground of his professional incompetence. He served on a number of Crown...

chief justice of Munster was the senior of the two judges who assisted the Lord President of Munster in judicial matters. Despite his title of Chief Justice...

brother of Sir Richard Dillon, ancestor of the Earls of Roscommon. Gerald's grandson Thomas Dillon, who died in 1606, was Chief Justice of Connacht. An earlier...

Composition of Connacht, or Composition of Connaught and Thomond, was a 1585 agreement between, on the one hand, the Gaelic and Gaelicised chiefs of Connacht and...

the remit of those courts. He was assisted by a council whose members included the Chief Justice of Connacht, one or two associate justices and the Attorney...