Robert Bagod

Robert spent the earlier part of his career in Limerick, where he served as County Sheriff and Constable of King John's Castle.

[7] The Council ordered that the records be searched for in the Irish Treasury (Exchequer of Ireland), where they had been deposited, and when located that they be sent to Bagod and his colleagues so that they might execute the judgment.

[7] Numerous similar requests from the Council over the following years to be informed of the outcome of individual cases suggest a degree of unhappiness with the efficiency of the Court's procedures.

He was a valued Crown servant: in 1281 he received an unspecified financial reward for his loyalty, and in 1284 in consideration of his long service he was excused from going on assize (always an onerous task, in view of the bad roads and perennial threat of assault or highway robbery).

His eldest son and heir, Sir Robert Bagod the younger (died c. 1330), was, like his father, a knight who served as High Sheriff of County Limerick and a justice of the Common Pleas.

It was severely damaged during the English Civil War, allowed to fall into ruin by its owners, and demolished in the early nineteenth century.

Possibly his proudest achievement was founding Ireland's only Carmelite Friary in Dublin in about 1274, despite considerable local opposition.