1434 in W. Fraser Hist. Carnegies (1867) 512 Comprehendendo the Rathys on Cloqhuokis denn..et prope ly Rathys ad austrum.

a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 54 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) There is a great use amongst the Irish, to make greate assemblies together upon a rath or hill.

a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 55 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) They are called Danes-Rathes, that is, hills of the Danes.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. ii. ii. 161 A ground of aduantage, being a strong Rath, between the towne and the Camp.

1700 E. Lhuyd Let. 25 Aug. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1712) 27 525 Their round Entrenchments, commonly called Danes Rathes.

1746 C. Smith Antient & Present State Waterford xx. 351 The first of these places he calls Falkmotes..and the round ones, Dane's Raths.

1790 E. Ledwich Antiq. Ireland 185 These Raths, always on elevated spots, are of different dimensions, some measuring not more than ten or fifteen yards in diameter, others contain eighteen or twenty English acres.

1807 R. C. Hoare Tour Ireland 21 One of those raised earthen works, which the Irish writers call raths.

1845 ‘E. Warburton’ Crescent & Cross II. 361 With the tombs of Hector and Achilles appearing like Irish raths.

1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. lvii. 231 The ‘good people’ still linger around the raths and glens.

1901 Gallovidian 3 71 He begood tae mak' a raith roon the cairn wi' the stanes, like a wee bruch or a sheep-ree.

1954 R. Sutcliff Eagle of Ninth xii. 136 My rath lies upwards of a day's trail to the west.

1992 Rescue News Dec. No. 57. 5/1 Rescue work was done at sites like Duneight motte and bailey and Ballywillwill rath.

1861 J. Y. Simpson Archæol. 36 The true sites of the..towns—or merely perhaps stockaded or rathed villages.

1813 M. M. Sherwood in Life (1847) xxv. 422 When these girls travel, they generally go hidden by crimson curtains in a rutt or car drawn by bullocks.

1823 Trans. Lit. Soc. Bombay 3 84 Arjoon succeeded in persuading the young prince to trust himself on his ruth, or car, and to proceed against the enemy.

1829 J. Shipp Mem. Mil. Career II. 183 I took the liberty of taking the rut and horse to camp as prize property.

1834 A. Prinsep Baboo II. ix. 176 The driver of the ruth had been found.

1866 T. Seaton From Cadet to Colonel xvii. 364 Hodson stopped the ruth.., and made the three prisoners descend.

1889 Illustr. Naval & Mil. Mag. Sept. 1346 The bullocks, unyoked from the ‘rutt’, or two-wheeled vehicle with domed roof of quilted scarlet cloth, are snatching their well-earned meal of chopped millet stalks.

1901 R. Kipling Kim iv. 92 Kim marked down a gaily ornamented ruth or family bullock-cart.

1913 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough (ed. 3) IX. 194 In some parts of India a principal means of expelling an epidemic is a little toy chariot called a ratha or rath, in which the goddess of the disease is supposed to be carted away.

1978 ‘M. M. Kaye’ Far Pavilions iii. xx. 291 The dust lay thick and the hooves of the trotting bullocks stirred it up in choking clouds that forced their way between the closely drawn curtains of the ruth, covering everything within.

c1855 ‘L. Carroll’ Stanza Anglo-Saxon Poetry in Rectory Umbrella & Mischmasch (1932) 139 All mimsy were the borogoves; And the mome raths outgrabe.

c1855 ‘L. Carroll’ Rectory Umbrella & Mischmasch (1932) 140 Rath, a species of land turtle. Head erect: mouth like a shark: the fore legs curved out so that the animal walked on its knees: smooth green body: lived on swallows and oysters.

1684 A. Littleton Linguæ Latinæ Liber Dictionarius (new ed.) Ovum sorbile, a rathe egg, a poached or rath-roasted egg.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) A rath Egg.

1786 J. H. Tooke Επεα Πτεροεντα x. 506 We have also in English the expression of..rath eggs.