  The magnetic order of the triangular lattice with antiferromagnetic
interactions is described by an SO(3) field and allows for the presence of Z2
magnetic vortices as defects. In this work we show how these Z2 vortices can be
fitted into a local SU(2) gauge theory. We propose simple Ansatzes for vortex
configurations and calculate their energies using well-known results of the
Abelian gauge model. We comment on how Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions could
be derived from a non-Abelian gauge theory and speculate on their effect on non
trivial configurations.
