Irish Hist. Obs. Also 6 toghe. [repr. Ir. tuath (-th = -h) territory, district.
Joyce, Irish Names of Places, ser. 2 (1875), 212, cites Tuoghnafall and Tuogh of the Fall from early 17th c. grants, as name of a district south of Belfast, now known as ‘The Falls’; the orig. Irish being Tuath-na-bhfál, district of the fáls, i.e., hedges or enclosures.]
A territory or district in Ireland.
[[?]. Old Ir. doct., cited in G. Hill, Plantation in Ulster (1877), 102. This is the number of Tuaths [districts] that are in Tirconnell.]
1584. Calr. Carew MSS., II. 391. The towghe of the two towghes, called the barony of Clonballykernan. Ibid. (1586), 428. The three toughes of Donseverige, Loghgill, and Toghe Ballamonyn.
1906. Proc. R. Irish Acad., XXVI. 58. Ancient Castles of Co. Limerick…. These baronies were divided into Toghes, ‘tuaths,’ or cantreds.
