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"''Túath''" referred to both the people who lived in the territory, and the territory they controlled.<ref name=RIA>{{Cite book| first = | last = The Royal Irish Academy | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1990 | month = | title = Dictionary of the Irish Language | chapter = | editor = | others = | edition = | publisher = Greystone Press | location = Antrim, N.Ireland | isbn =0-901714-29-1 | url =| page = 612 }} |
"''Túath''" referred to both the people who lived in the territory, and the territory they controlled.<ref name=RIA>{{Cite book| first = | last = The Royal Irish Academy | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1990 | month = | title = Dictionary of the Irish Language | chapter = | editor = | others = | edition = | publisher = Greystone Press | location = Antrim, N.Ireland | isbn =0-901714-29-1 | url =| page = 612 }} |
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</ref> In [[Irish language|Modern Irish]] it is spelled ''tuath'', without the [[Acute accent| |
</ref> In [[Irish language|Modern Irish]] it is spelled ''tuath'', without the [[Acute accent|fada]] (length mark). |
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In ancient Irish terms, a household was reckoned at about thirty people per dwelling. A ''[[trícha cét]]'' ("thirty hundreds"), was an area comprising a hundred dwellings or, roughly, three thousand people. A ''túath'' consisted of a number of allied ''trícha céta'', and therefore referred to no fewer than 6,000 people. Probably a more accurate number for a ''túath'' would be no fewer than 9,000 people.<ref name=Dillon>{{Cite book| first = Myles | last = Dillon | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1994 | month = | title = Early Irish Literature | chapter = | editor = | others = | edition = | publisher = Four Courts Press | location = Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland | isbn = 1-85182-177-5 | url = | nopp = true| page = xiv }} |
In ancient Irish terms, a household was reckoned at about thirty people per dwelling. A ''[[trícha cét]]'' ("thirty hundreds"), was an area comprising a hundred dwellings or, roughly, three thousand people. A ''túath'' consisted of a number of allied ''trícha céta'', and therefore referred to no fewer than 6,000 people. Probably a more accurate number for a ''túath'' would be no fewer than 9,000 people.<ref name=Dillon>{{Cite book| first = Myles | last = Dillon | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1994 | month = | title = Early Irish Literature | chapter = | editor = | others = | edition = | publisher = Four Courts Press | location = Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland | isbn = 1-85182-177-5 | url = | nopp = true| page = xiv }} |
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Túath (plural túatha) is an Old Irish word, often translated as "people" or "nation". It is cognate with the Welsh and Breton tud (people), and with the Germanic þeudō (for which see theodiscus).
"Túath" referred to both the people who lived in the territory, and the territory they controlled.[1]InModern Irish it is spelled tuath, without the fada (length mark).
In ancient Irish terms, a household was reckoned at about thirty people per dwelling. A trícha cét ("thirty hundreds"), was an area comprising a hundred dwellings or, roughly, three thousand people. A túath consisted of a number of allied trícha céta, and therefore referred to no fewer than 6,000 people. Probably a more accurate number for a túath would be no fewer than 9,000 people.[2]
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The organization of túatha is covered to a great extent within the Brehon laws, Irish laws written down in the 7th century, also known as the Fénechas.
The social structure of ancient Irish culture was based around the concept of the fine (plural finte), or family kin-group. All finte descended from a common ancestor out to four generations comprised a social unit known as a dearbhfhine (plural dearbhfhinte). Túatha are often described as petty kingdoms. Due to the complex and ever-changing political nature of ancient Ireland, túatha ranged from being sovereign, locally autonomous kingdoms to states comprising a much larger sovereign kingdom, such as Connacht or Ulaid, and thus describing their place in the socio-political structure of Ireland is varied depending on the power and influence of the individual dynasties.
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