It was a punishment designed as much for humiliation as for physical suffering, and for a time one stood somewhere along Ship Street in Dublin, recorded as existing in 1610.

The reference comes from Clarke's 2002 work, which notes the pillory's presence on Ship Street at that date. Ship Street runs close to Dublin Castle, and in the early seventeenth century this was a busy, functional part of the city, close to the administrative and military centre of English rule in Ireland. The pillory would have been a familiar urban fixture, a visible reminder of civic authority and its capacity to shame those who transgressed against it. What specific offences brought people to this particular frame, and for how long the structure stood there, the record does not say.

The location cannot be pinpointed precisely. Ship Street still exists, divided into Great Ship Street and Little Ship Street, running along the southern flank of Dublin Castle. Walking it today, there is little to mark the site as anything other than a quiet service road skirting the castle walls, with the Chester Beatty Library garden visible above. There is no plaque, no marker, and no surviving physical trace of the pillory itself. What remains is only the note in the historical record, a single line confirming that somewhere along this short stretch of street, in the reign of James I, a wooden frame stood waiting.