▪ I. † toughe, towghe 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. 1586 Ibid. 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. |
▪ II. toughe
variant of tow n.3 Obs.