c._ 24.
[93] _Year .-- Hist.

Rer.Angl_.lib.ii.c.

26.
[94] _Aitheach Tuatha_ .-- The word means rentpayers, or rentpaying tribes or people.

It is probably used as a term of reproach, and in contradiction to the free men.

It has been said that this people were the remnants of the inhabitants of Ireland before the Milesians colonized it.