Part I. Topography of Thomond Chapter 11. Tradraighe; Tuath Echtghe

Tuath Echtghe

This district, comprising the greater part of the celebrated mountain of Sliabh Echtghe, from which it takes its name, is mentioned in MacNamara’s Rent Roll as a distinct territory, but in no other authority is it referred to in that character. It comprised the whole of the large parish of Feakle. We do not find that it formed the estate of any particular sept at any period of our history. Before the year 1318, it was a part of the country of the Ui Bloid, and it is still placed in the Deanery of that name, or as it is Anglicised, O’Mullod. It is likely that it originally formed part of O’Shanahan’s country.