Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 3 (of 3), Land and peopleSkene, W. F. (William Forbes)
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Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 3 (of 3), Land and people
Skene, W. F. (William Forbes)
Celts -- Scotland; Civilization, Celtic; Scotland -- Antiquities, Celtic; Scotland -- History -- To 1603
But not only do these measures of land vary in size and denomination,
but the _Tuath_ or tribe territory appears also to have varied in
different parts of Ireland as well as the constitution of the tribe
possessing it. The publications of the Irish Archæological and Celtic
Societies afford specimens of this in four of the provinces in Ireland.
Thus the preface to the poems of John O Dugan, who died in 1372, opens
with reference to Meath with the general statement—‘His country
(_Duthaidh_) to every _Ardrigh_ and to every _Urrigh_ and to every
_Taoisech_ of a _Tuath_ in Erin.’[180] In the district of Corca Laidhe
in Munster, which represented a _Mortuath_, instead of containing merely
three or seven _Tuaths_, we find eight _Tuaths_ mentioned, and of seven
of these the head of the tribe is termed its _Toisech_, and bears the
same name, while the _Flaith_ or chiefs are called _Oclaich Duthaich_,
or the champions of the territory. The first is the _Duthaich_ or
country of _O Gillamichil_, with seventeen _Oclaich_. Then we have the
_Tuath Ui Chonneid_, with O Conneid as its _Toisech_, and five
_Oclaich_. Then _Tuath Ruis_, with O Laeghaire as its _Toisech_, and
eleven _Oclaich_ or chiefs. Then Tuath O’n-Aenghusa, with O h-Aenghusa
as its _Toisech_, and fourteen _Oclaich_. Then Tuath O’Fithcheallaigh,
with O’Fithcheallaigh as its _Toisech_, and eight _Oclaich_. Then Tuath
O’n Dunghalaigh, with O Dunghaill as its _Toisech_, and nine _Oclaich_.
Then Tuath Ui-Dubhdaleithe, with O Dubhdaleithe as its _Toisech_ and
seven _Oclaich_. The boundaries of these several _Tuaths_ are likewise
given.[181]
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