Crossword-Solution: ARDRI 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Here and also in Ulster he was successful, everywhere he received hostages and tribute, and he was generally recognized as the _ardri_, or chief king of Ireland.

The same right of self-government extended through the whole hierarchy of states up to the Ardri or high-king at the head.

The Ardri, supreme lord and arbitrator among them, was surrounded by his councillors--the law-men or brehons, the bards and chroniclers, and the druids, teachers and men of science.

Strangers "moved by the love of study" still set out "in imitation of their ancestors to visit the land of the Irish so wonderfully celebrated for its learning." While the spirit of Ireland manifested itself in the shaping of a national university, and of a national church, in the revival of the glories of the Ardri, and in vigour of art and learning, there was an outburst too among the common folk of jubilant patriotism.

The unit was the _Tuath_ or tribe; several Tuaths formed a _Mortuath_ or great tribe; two or more Mortuaths a _Coicidh_ or province; and at the head of each was the _Ri_ or king; while each province contributed a portion of its territory, at their point of junction, to form a central district, in which the capital of the whole county was placed, and the _Ri_ or king, who was elected to be its _Ardri_ or sovereign, had his seat of government.