What is "brehons"

Usage examples of "brehons".

And he sat him there about the hour of five o'clock to administer the law of the brehons at the commission for all that and those parts to be holden in and for the county of the city of Dublin.

In the latter met the filays and seanachies, the brehons and ollams: poets, historians/storytellers, judges and learned doctors of law and letters.

Fine brooches and ornate neck-encompassing torcs winked and flashed from many throats, for the room now filled with nobles and advisers, chiefs and priests, Brehons or judges and Seanachies or historians, ollams and sternly robed Druids.