The existence of a church official maintaining his own instrument of execution is a reminder that medieval ecclesiastical authority extended well beyond the spiritual, and that the archbishops of Dublin held considerable temporal power, including jurisdiction over life and death within their own lands.

The source for this detail is a single reference by Clarke (2002), noting that the Archbishop of Dublin's gallows had been dismantled by around 1530. That date places its disappearance in a period of significant institutional upheaval in Ireland, just before the Henrician Reformation began to erode the political standing of the Catholic hierarchy. The gallows itself would have been a functional feature of the archbishop's manorial rights, a form of high justice known as the right of infangthief or similar franchise, by which certain lords and ecclesiastical magnates were permitted to try and hang criminals taken on their own land. It was not unusual in a medieval Irish or English context for a bishop or archbishop to hold such rights, but physical evidence of the practice rarely survives. Here, even the location has been lost.

There is nothing to visit in the conventional sense. The site is not precisely located, and no marker, ruin, or surviving feature identifies where the structure once stood. What remains is the historical fact itself, lodged in the scholarly record and pointing to a now-invisible layer of the city's past. For anyone interested in Dublin's medieval topography, the south city contains several such traces, none of them announced and most of them requiring patience with archival sources rather than a walk to any particular spot. The most a curious reader can do is consult Clarke's 2002 study and sit with the strangeness of the detail: that an archbishop's gallows once stood somewhere here, and that the city simply grew over it.