{{Short description|Welsh word meaning a hump or tump}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox performing art|name=Twmpath<br />|caption=A Twmpath dance held at a barn, Llangefni 1963|medium=Dance|types=|ancestor=|culture=Welsh|image=File:Twmpath_Dawns_ar_fferm_Lledwigan,_Llangefni_(1463724).jpg}} '''''Twmpath''''' ({{IPA|cy|ˈtʊmpaθ}}) is a Welsh word literally meaning a hump or tump, once applied to the mound or 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 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 version of the barn dance or cèilidh.
The same word is also used to refer to a speed bump.
==See also== *Culture of Wales *Troyl
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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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