flathn.
Irish History.
A lord (see quots.).
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1873 W. K. Sullivan in E. O'Curry On Manners & Customs Anc. Irish I. Introd. p. ci The first class [of Aires] were the true lords or Flaths, the Hlaford of the Anglo-Saxons.
1876 W. K. Sullivan in Encycl. Brit. V. 799 An aire whose family held the same land for three generations was called a flaith or lord.
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