The choice of toparchs was limited, however, by the laws of tanistry to noble families; and the tanist was always selected upon the accession and during the lifetime of the ruling toparch.
I think I am right in saying that most readers gather from these books the impression that the Irish institution of Tanistry dates from time immemorial.
The law of tanistry was a reasonable provision which preserved the right of election and yet determined the succession in advance.
It is known that it existed previous to the conversion of Ireland to Christianity, and that the laws of tanistry and of gavelkind, the customs of gossipred and of fostering, were of pagan origin.
The Tanistry was the great source of all those evils.
The constitution given by this Prince to the whole country seems to have been a close copy of the Irish--it embraced the laws of Tanistryand succession, and the whole Brehon code, as administered in the parent state.
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