Tuatha
Tuath is an Old Irish term meaning people, tribe, or territory. The plural form is tuatha. In historical and literary contexts, the word denotes both a social group and the land they inhabit, reflecting how Gaelic communities organized themselves around kinship, territory, and local rulers. The concept can refer to a single community as well as to multiple such communities within a larger region.
In political and geographic terms, a tuath was a basic unit of Gaelic Ireland, often functioning as
Mythology provides a notable usage of the term, most prominently in Tuatha Dé Danann, “the People of
Today, tuath remains a scholarly and historical term, encountered mainly in discussions of early Irish society,