As Harold Mytum says (1992:141) “The fundamental buiding block of the political system in Early Christian Ireland was the Túath, led by the king, “rí” or “rí túaithe”. There is considerable dispute as to whether the ‘túath’ represented a tribe […] 4 there was no ethnic, linguistic or cultural division, but it did, represent a political unit, and one on a larger scale than that of the kin-group. Belonging to a túath –as in Galiza today- was an important concept in Early Christian Ireland.