Obs. Also 7 tathe. [In Irish taite; but held to be a borrowed word: cf. Joyce, Ir. Names of Places, I. 246. Some think it derived from prec.] A measure of land formerly used in Ireland, equal to 60 Irish acres.
1607. Davies, Lett. Earl Salisb., i. Tracts (1787), 229. Every ballybetagh … containeth sixteen taths; every tath containeth three-score English acres or thereabouts.
a. 1660. Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archæol. Soc.), I. 339. Every ballyboe, quarter, pole, or tathe of land. Ibid., 349. Twoe tates of the three tates of Ballagh.
1842. S. C. Hall, Ireland, II. 354. The lesser divisions were known by the various appellations of quarters, half quarters, ballyboes, gneeves, tates, &c.
1861. Reeves in Proc. Roy. Ir. Acad., VII. 484.
