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

It is from Brión, Fiachra and Ailill mac Eochaid Muigmedóin

  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.

T556.1

Duach Tenga Uma, king of Connacht, died.

Map of Connacht insert

 Organisation of Connacht

Map of Connacht Tuaithe

McDermot MacDiarmada Marshalls of Connacht