Tuath Sentence Examples

Each provincial kingdom and each tuath had assemblies of its own.

The Rig-Tuatha received tribute and allegiance from the flaiths or nobles in his tuath.

The tuath was the political unit, and the ruler of it was the lowest to whom the term "king" was applied.

Tuath, Cinel and Clann were synonyms meaning a small tribe or nation descended from a common ancestor.

The flaiths in every tuath and all ranks of society were organized on the same hierarchical pattern as royalty.

All the bishops in a coenobium were subject to the abbot; but besides the bishop in the monastic families, every tuath or tribe had its own bishop. The church in Ireland having been evolved out of the monastic nuclei already described the tribe bishop was an episcopal development of a somewhat later period.

The tuath bishop in later centuries corresponded to the diocesan bishop as closely as it was possible in two systems so different as tribal and municipal government.

When diocesan jurisdiction was introduced into Ireland in the 12th century the tuath became a diocese.

The tuath or territory of a ri (represented roughly by a modern barony) was divided among the septs.

The heads of the various professions in the tuath received the title of ollam.