Clann Cholmáin," says an ancient genealogist, "were distributed throughout Midhe so as to possess the lordship of every tuath and perpetual sovereignty over them.
One of these subject communities is known by the variant namesTuath Semon, Semonrige, Semrige, and Semaine.
Authority belonged to the patrician class, conditioned only by the prudential maxim, is treise tuath na tighearna--"a people is stronger than a lord.
But there was another early settlement in the North of Ireland whom the historians called Tuath de Danan, which simply means the folks of the Tribe of Dan.
The two oirirs were the Oirir a tuathand the Oirir a deas, which make up the district known as Oirir Gaedheal, or Oirir Alban, and in Latin, Argathelia.
The flaiths in every tuath and all ranks of society were organized on the same hierarchical pattern as royalty.
Each provincial kingdom and each tuath had assemblies of its own.
The tuath was the political unit, and the ruler of it was the lowest to whom the term "king" was applied.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tuath" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
