Status Updates From Condemned to Death (A Burre...

This was a sad accident. Finbar found gold, the merchant tried to take it. A struggle ensued. Death occurred. Art, Cormac and Cian covered up crime after Cormac judges it to be an accident. Mara blames self for not giving Finbar hope. Finbar gives self to sea during storm. His body washes up on beach next day.

Cael finds the dead man's clothes after Domhnall and Slevin found his purple cloak.

Mara and her scholars ask more questions about the murdered merchant. The result is more answers that prompts ever further questions. It seems that Fernandez O'Connell organised the blank and silent treatment that was first met and perhaps even the staging of the body.

Mara and Galway's mayor, Valentine Blake, talk about Finbar's future and Niall Martin's estate, death .

The students are or seem to have sided with the villagers concerning the body, with the exception of Domhnall, Slevin and perhaps Cael, the only girl pupil. Mara announcesthat she's going to Galway and will take Finbar. She leaves Domhnall in charge.

Mara assigns her students to interview the villagers. One pair of them are Setenta and Cliona, her son, Cormac's fosterparents and parents to Art, a student of hers. She's afraid that they might be involved.

More searching for the source of the golden jewellery, motive and student teaching. Mara finds a ring but not source of treasure. She plans on Galway trip to speak with the mayor about the victim and a possible future for Finbar who failed his exams a second time. Finbar has a beautiful script and draws.

In an effort to find a motive Mara visits Ardal O'Lochlainn, chieftain of the O'Lochlainns, uncle to Nuala and friend of hers. Ardal does. Niall Martin, goldsmith, was looking for ancient Irish golden treasure at Fanore, which means the slope of the gold.

To confirm Domhnall's identification of the victim, she sends both him and Slevin to Galway for Domhnall's father, Oisin. Oisin is married to her daughter, Sorcha, and is an extremely successful wine importer in Galway. Mara and Oisin have a nice talk, confirming the identity of the body.

Nuala confirms the death was not fingal, kin-slaying. The corpse had estten a substantial meal before he was killed. The manner of killing was a sharp blow to the head about 3 days ago.

Mara in conference with Slevin and Domhnall explains her reasoning behind her surety that this was murder. Domhnall, the discrete, finally is sure that the body is one Niall Martin, Galway goldsmith.

Mara is troubled by her other students' silence in the matter. Slevin shows her how the boat was dragged into the river and hence the sea and shore. She knows now a murder was committed.

While waiting for Nuala to arrive and rule on cause of death, Mara tries to find out if the boat was the same one she saw 3 days before on the dunes. Only Slevin an intelligent student confirms that a boat was there. He also states that Domhnall remembers one too, but he was sent for Nuala.

Something about the body bothers Mara and the crowd seems too eager to judge this a kin-slaying and not from the area. Unfortunately, Domhnall seems to recognise the body as a silver/goldsmith from Galway. She instruct a student to send for Nuala, a gifted physician.

The body is laid out as though he was convicted of Brehon law's worst crime: that of kin-slaying. The condemned is left in a boat without oars and pushed out to sea and abandoned to the winds, left in God's hands.

Mara, Brehon of the kingdom of the Burren, is pondering over her students examination results, when she is interrupted by her 16 year old grandson and student, Domhnall announcing that a body and boat have washed up on the shore of Fanore Bay.