General Notes

Tuathal was born about 56 A.D. and reigned for 30 years. Tuathal was also
known as Tuathal the Legitimate and was the 106th Monarch of Ireland. His
reign began in the year 76 AS and ended in the year 106 when Mal MacRochraidhe
became the 107th Monarch. When Tuathal came of age, he got together with his
friends and, with what aid his grandfather the King of Alba gave him, came
into Ireland and fought and overcame his enemies in 25 battles in Ulster, 25
in Leinster, as many in Connaught, and 35 in Munster. Having thus restored
the true Royal blood and heirs to their respective provincial kingdoms, he saw
fit to take from each of the four provinces [Munster, Leinster, Connaught, and
Ulster] a considerable tract of land which was the next adjoining to Uisneach
[where Tuathal had a palace]; one East, one West, a third South and a fourth
to the North of it. He appointed all four tracts of ground thus taken as
Midhe or Meath to belong forever after to the Monarch's own peculiar demesne
for the maintenance of his table. On each of the several portions, he built a
royal palace for himself and his heirs and successors. For every portion the
Monarch ordained a certain chiefry to tribute to be yearly paid to the
provincial Kings from whose provinces the said portions were taken.

It was this Monarch who imposed the great and insupportable fine [or "Eric"]
of 6,000 cows, or beeves, as many fat mutton and hogs, 6,000 mantles, 6,000
ounces [or "Uinge"] of silver, and 12,000 cauldrons or pots of brass, to be
paid every second year by the province of Leinster to the Monarchs of Ireland
forever, for the death of his only two daughters Fithir and Darina. This
tribute was punctually taken and exacted, sometimes by fire and sword during
the reigns of forty monarchs of Ireland upwards of 600 years, until at last
remitted by Finachta Fleadhach, the 153rd Milesian Monarch of Ireland and its
26th Christian Monarch at the request and earnest solicitation of Saint Moling.
At the end of 30 years' reign, the Monarch Tuathal was slain by his successor
Mal in 106 AD. Through the divisions Tuathal made, Ireland became a Pentarchy:
A supreme Monarch being elected to preside over all the Provincial Kings and
Designated "Ard-righ" or High King. This Monarch erected a royal palace at
Tailtean. Around the grave of Queen Tailte, he caused the fairs to be resumed
on La Lughnasa [Lewy's Day], to which were brought all the youth of both sexes
of a suitable age to be married, at which Fair, the marriage articles were
agreed upon and the ceremony performed.

He married Bain before 97 AD.