The Constitutional crisis saw large numbers of inhabitants as well as the Viscount of An Móir Leautheinn and His Lordship's Most Loyal Opposition fleeing the Viscountcy to form a government in exile. The Barony of Gléaoinnenoileun temporarily seceeded from the Viscountcy following the implementation of the "Draconian" laws to become a political anomaly within the Earldom until the end of the crisis. Women and children who remained within the Viscountcy because of an inability to leave through either patriarchal or governmental forceful restriction or lack of resources to travel. The constitutional crisis saw the population of the Viscountcy decreasing from approx. 432,000 inhabitants to less than 40,000.