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
The province of Ulster likewise presents us with the _Tuath_ or tribe,
several of which form a larger territory equivalent to the Mortuath.
Thus a vast territory, consisting of the two districts of the Route and
Glynnes, was granted by James I. in 1603 to the Earl of Tyrone, and was
at that time subdivided into sixteen smaller districts termed _Tuoghs_
or _Tuaths_, which are recited in the patent. The Route, which was
co-extensive with the ancient territory of Dalriada—from which name
indeed the modern word Route is a corruption—contained nine _Tuoghs_.
These were the _Tuogh_ between the Bandy or Bann and the Boys or Bush,
containing six parishes; the _Tuogh_ of Dunseverick and Ballenatoy; the
_Tuogh_ of Ballelagh; the _Tuogh_ of Loughgill; the _Tuogh_ of
Ballemoney and Dromart, containing two parishes; the _Tuogh_ of
Killeoconway (_Coil na g-Connmuigh_), or the wood of O’Conway; the
_Tuogh_ of Killioquin, or the wood of O’Conn; the _Tuogh_ of
Killiomorrie, or the wood of O’Murry; and the _Tuogh_ of Magheredunagh
(_Machaire Dun Eachdach_), or plain of the fort of Eachdach, consisting
of the parish now called Dunaghy. The district of the Glynnes consisted
of seven baronies, six of which are termed _Tuoghs_. These were the
_Tuogh_ of Munerie, the _Tuogh_ of Carey, the _Tuogh_ of Glenmiconogh,
the _Tuogh_ of the Largie, the _Tuogh_ of the Parke, and the _Tuogh_ of
the Larne. The entire acreage of the two districts of the Route and the
Glynnes was 333,907 acres, giving an average of 20,869 acres to each.
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