After Victor has destroyed the female companion he'd promised to make for his creature, he rows out into the sea to dump his equipment into the water. He does so, and he feels so much better after that he decides to stay out and enjoy the night. He falls asleep in the boat and when he awakens, it is daylight and he has no idea where he is. He eventually sees land, and sails in its direction, and when he comes ashore, he learns from the inhabitants that he is in Ireland.
He is compelled by these individuals to see Mr. Kirwin, the magistrate, because they believe that Victor is the murderer of a man found the night before. He learns that the murdered man was strangled and sees the body, recognizing it as his friend's. At this point, he becomes extremely ill for the next two months, and when he wakes up he is "surrounded by gaolers, turnkeys, bolts, and all the miserable apparatus of a dungeon." In short, Victor is in an Irish prison (albeit in the nicest room in the prison because Mr. Kirwin took pity on him).
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