the orderly vision of an English soldier with well tended fields and paths
Overview of a Tuath
triocha cead
each tuath had
subdivided into a network of parishes with smaller chiefs
further into townlands
private and jointly held land
roads maintained grades of road bo thar bo rin
bulk transport of grain and clerics by water
horse trains
ports and fleets
each townland into quarters
plough land pasture arable forests orchards
distraint fields pounds for fines and disputed livestock
religous
hospitality
schools and education
sports
tourism the pilgrimage industry De Perellos trip to St Patricks Purgatory relics
hospitals
oireachtas the assembly of the free men of a tuath
defences
military forces
case o the Dublin bookseller and his ten pounds
dindsenchus the ancient and mythological associations of the land with the gods
inter tuath relations
The king of a tuath is responsible for relations with other tuath and may make treaties Cairde with them.
Guaire Aidne mac Colmáin
Mac Giolla Laoire - (Mac) Callery, Colleary, Collary - Co. Sligo & north Connacht
Ó Doibhilin - (O) Devlin - Co Sligo - chiefs in Corran, standard bearer to O'Connor
Ó Domhnalláin - O'Donnellan - Co Galway - the Uí Maine, lord of Clan Breasail
Ó Dubhda - (O) Dowd - Co Mayo and West Sligo - Uí Fiachrach Muaide
Ó Diubhgeannáin - (O) Duigenan, Deignan, Dignam, ... - Co Roscommon, Leitrim - erenaghs of Kilronan
Mac Aodhagáin - (Mac) Egan - Uí Maine territory, then Ormond
Ó Fhearghaill or Fergail - (O) Farrell - Co Longford - lords of Annaly
Ó Fiannaidhe - (O) Feeney - Co Sligo/Mayo - sept of the Uí Fiachrach
Ó Fionnáin - (O) Finan - Co Mayo - Uí Fiachrach Muaighe chiefs of Coolcarney
Ó Fionn - (O) Finn - Co Sligo - chiefs of Calry
Ó Gadhra - O'Gara - Co Sligo/Roscommon - chiefs of Luighne Connacht
Mac Fhearadhaigh - (Mac) Garry - Co Roscommon/Leitrim
Mac Oireachtaigh - (Mac) Geraghty - Co Roscommon/Galway - Uí Briuin Ai (in Uí Maine)
Ó hEaghra- O'Hara - Co Sligo - lords of Luighne with the O'Garas
Ó hAirt - (O) Hart - Co Meath - southern Uí Neill,O'Connor Sligo cavalry
Ó hEilidhe - Healey - Co Sligo
Ó hUigín - Higgins - Co Westmeath, Sligo and Mayo - Southern Uí Neill
Mac Giolla Bháin - MacIlwaine or Kilbane - Co Sligo - the Uí Fiachrach
Mac Giolla Riabhaigh - MacIlrea, Kilrea - Co. Sligo & elsewhere
Ó Caomháin - (O) Keevan or Kavanagh - Co Sligo - Uí Fiachrach
Mac an Bháird - (Mac) Ward - Co Donegal and Galway
Mac Searraigh - MacSharry or Foley - Breifne, e.g. northern Leitrim, Sligo
Ó Ruairc - (O) Rourke - Co Leitrim/Cavan - the Uí Briuin - rulers of Breifne
Ó Raithbheartiagh - (O) Rafferty - Co Donegal/Sligo
Mac Muireachaidh - (Mac)Murry or MacMorrow - Co Leitrim
that the Connachta are descended
Eochaid Mugmedon is said to have had two wives: Mongfind, daughter of Fidach, who bore him four sons, Brion, Ailill, Fiachrae and Fergus; and Cairenn Chasdub, daughter of Sachell Balb, king of the Saxons, who bore him his most famous son, Niall from whom are descended the Ui Neill.
The three Ciarraige of Connacht - Ciarraige Áei, Ciarraige Airtig and Ciarraighe Locha na nÁirne - were thought to have once formed a single over-kingdom which was broken up by the rise of the Ui Briuin in the 8th and 9th centuries.
Ciarraighe Locha na nÁirne was located in the barony of Costello in east County Mayo.
The leading dynasty of the Ciarraige Locha na nAirne had by the 12th century adopted the surname Ó Céirín. It is now anglacised as Carney, O'Kieran, Kearns, Keherny.
Duach Tenga Uma, king of Connacht, died.
Map of Connacht insert
Organisation of Connacht
Map of Connacht Tuaithe
McDermot MacDiarmada Marshalls of Connacht
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