# Twmpath

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{{Short description|Welsh word meaning a hump or tump}}
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{{Infobox performing art|name=Twmpath<br />|caption=A Twmpath dance held at a barn, [Llangefni](/source/Llangefni) 1963|medium=[Dance](/source/Dance)|types=|ancestor=|culture=[Welsh](/source/Welsh_culture)|image=File:Twmpath_Dawns_ar_fferm_Lledwigan,_Llangefni_(1463724).jpg}}
'''''Twmpath''''' ({{IPA|cy|ˈtʊmpaθ}}) is a [Welsh](/source/Welsh_language) word literally meaning a hump or [tump](/source/tump_(hill)), once applied to the mound or [village green](/source/village_green) upon which the musicians sat and played for the community to dance.

''Twmpath dawnsiau'' were a form of barn dance organised by [Urdd Gobaith Cymru](/source/Urdd_Gobaith_Cymru) in the late 1950s and 1960s for the entertainment of young people, mainly from rural areas.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Davies|editor1-link=John Davies (historian)|editor2-first=Nigel |editor2-last=Jenkins | editor2-link=Nigel Jenkins| editor3-first=Baines |editor3-last=Menna|editor4-first=Peredur I. |editor4-last=Lynch|title=The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales |year=2008 |publisher=University of Wales Press |location=Cardiff |page=893|isbn=978-0-7083-1953-6}}</ref> These events remained popular until the rise of discos in the 1970s. ''Twmpath'' is used today to mean a [Welsh](/source/Wales) version of the [barn dance](/source/barn_dance) or [cèilidh](/source/c%C3%A8ilidh).

The same word is also used to refer to a [speed bump](/source/speed_bump).

==See also==
*[Culture of Wales](/source/Culture_of_Wales)
*[Troyl](/source/Troyl)

==Notes==
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{{Welsh folk music}}
{{Welsh Dance}}

Category:Society of Wales
Category:Music of Wales
Category:Welsh-language music
Category:Music history of Wales
Category:European folk dances

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