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600 BC - 500 BC
600 BC - 300 BC
The Gaelic Milesian
Irian Navan Fort of
Eamhain Macha /
Armagh in the south - east of
the
Ulster
Province was
to be in existence until the coming of the
Gaelic Milesian
Heremonian
Ui Cobhthaigh
Dal Cuinn 3 Colla brothers who would
establish their Orghialla
/ Oriel kingdom there.
600 BC
Celts were recorded who were not necessarily Celtic speaking on the Iberian
Peninsula and in Ierne / Ireland
and Albion / Briton and they
continued to arrive into Erinn
/ Ireland before this
date and up until 27 AD belonging linguistically to the great
Indo - European
language family. Himilco, the Carthaginian, recorded Celtic tribes on the
North Sea
and in France
and Spain (Gaul) and
Celtic place names are widespread in Spain and Portugal and
correspond
with the Urnfields running back through the south of France and the
Rhone
Valley to within the south - western area of
the North Alpine Urnfield Province.
The Urnfield Culture spread widely south and west from
Catalonia and later groups entered the Peninsula from the western end of the
Pyrenees
setting up along the Atlantic coast. These western people were mostly
unabsorbed
by the older established inhabitants when the region was to come within the
Roman Empire later on in 200 BC, as these then were the
Celts who lived around Pyrene and beyond the Pillars of
Hercules. Only after the emergence of the Hallstatt
Warrior Society
did all come together under tribes from
Spain
in Gaul, through Middle
Europe, to the eastern end of the Alps
and Nyrax / Nocia later in Styria.
The full Hallstatt Culture was established and conformed with the full
range of Celtic peoples in relation to the Celtic place names that existed.
The
Cimmerians and the Scythians
lived on the Steppe Lands of Eastern Europe
and a group of tribes were brought together through over - lordship of a warlike
aristocratic Royal Tribe the "Keltoi
"and when that
warlike tribe suffered reverses that particular Nation fell apart and new groups and names
then took in the many splintered groups. The
Scythians
were responsible for the collapse of the Cimmerian
suzerainty and
became the eastern neighbours of the Hallstatt
Culture
Province in the
late 6th Century and they were then overthrown by another westward moving
nomadic people the Sarmatians. The Celts were not so easy
to overcome, due to their mainly
farming economy and the diversity of their environment.
The
Pretani were to become a
significant name in Albion
/
Briton by the time of Pytheas
and there was no indication that an addition took place in population before to
the previous native population in Erinn /
Ireland.
The Hallstatt Culture appeared with settlers from then on, with Mid -
Albion / Briton populated by Late Bronze Age migrants
who may have been
subject to Hallstatt warlords, and they had long bronze or iron swords and were
riding or driving horses bridled and adorned in the fashion of their
Middle
European homeland. There was separate immigration directly from the Lower Rhenish region through or around Scotland and crannog dwellings indicated in the
Upper
River
Shannon
in Erinn /
Ireland
are similar to those from the west Alpine zone.
(The long sword was to give way to the broad - bladed
dagger and two casting spears.)
593 BC
59.Ugaine
"Mor"
/
59.Hugoney
the Great
the Heremonian
66th King of
Tara / Erinn, who was a son of
58.Eochy "Buadhach,"
the son of *57.Duach "Ladhrach"
the previous
59th King of
Tara / Erinn
descended from 37.Heremon,
had ruled for 40 years and was a contemporary of Alexander the Great.
During his time he had sailed
with his fleet into the Mediterranean, landed forces in
Africa, laid siege to Sicily and went onto
Gaul and married
Cessair
the daughter of the
King of the
Gauls. He had
22 sons and 3
daughters and he had divided the kingdom of Erinn
into 25 parts for them to inherit.
He was killed at the end of this year at
Tealach an Chosgair
(The
Hill of Victory) in
Magh Muiredha in the ancient kingdom of
Brega
in the Midlands / Mide
now Co. Meath in the
south - east of
Northern
Leinster.
Prior to this he had received a promise from all of his
subjects that they would never contend for the sovereignty of
Erinn
against any of his descendants. One of his sons,
60.Roighne was to be
the author of many of the original
Irish
laws collected and included in the
Irish Brehon Law
but despite the great number of sons he had produced only
2 of these sons were to leave any
aristocratic warrior issue. 60.Leary
/ Laoghaire
Lorc" would become the
future 68th
King of Tara / Erinn
and 60.Coffey
/ Cobthach
"Caol Breagh"- the Slender of
Brega - who would become the
69th King of Tara / Erinn.
60.Leary
/ Laoghaire
“Lorc” became the 68th King of Tara
/ Erinn,
who was one of the 25 sons of
59.Ugaine
"Mor"
/ 59.Hugoney
the Great
- the
previous
Heremonian
66th King of
Tara / Erinn
descended from
37.Heremon
and he
was to become
the direct ancestor of the
aristocratic warrior
Ui Lughaidh
Cu Corb
Kings of
Leinster,
and
the Ui Connla Kings of Ossory in
Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of
Southern Leinster.
60.Coffey
/ Cobhthach “Caol Breagh”
- the Slender of
Brega - his brother, was the
King of Brega in
the
Midlands /
Co. Meath in the south - east of
Northern
Leinster but he still envied his brother’s higher position
and wanted him dead and actually made himself sick thinking about it and
60.Leary came to visit
him and as he bent over to embrace him
60.Coffey plunged a dagger deep into his heart
at Carman in Co. Wexford
in the south - east of
Southern
Leinster.
60.Coffey
then also poisoned
60.Leary's son,
61.Ailill
"Aine” who had
previously succeeded his father as the King of
Leinster to remove his chance of gaining the
Kingship
of Tara / Erinn also. As fate would have it,
61.Ailill’s infant son,
62.Maen
“Ollamh” had also received a
blow during a hurling match, which made him unable to speak and he was
therefore ruled incapable of ever succeeding to the
Kingship. Because of this disability,
60.Coffey
spared his life and he lived in his father's palace at
Dinn Righ (The Hill of the Kings) an ancient royal residence founded
originally by the
Fir Bolg Septs on the River
Barrow near Leighlin / Leith Ghlinn in Co. Carlow
in Southern Leinster. He was then under the care of his minders
Ferceirtine and
Craftine
but later on when
62.Maen was older he was to
have an
altercation with some one and actually spoke again and he was then to be known as
62.Labhraidh
(He speaks.)
60.Coffey
/ Cobthach who was by then the
69th King of Tara / Erinn was set up at Tara in
Co. Meath
in the south - east of
Northern
Leinster where he was informed about the physical change that had occurred to his
great - nephew, 62.Maen
/
62.Labraidh and ordered him and his teachers to
attend the Ard Feis in
Co. Meath where the Kings of Ireland
held the 6 day Festival of Samhain every year and every 3rd year a
Legal Assembly met there. During the feast 60.Coffey
asked, "Who was the most generous man at
Tara"
and the two teachers named
62.Labraidh
/
62.Maen) and
and in a fury and using this as an excuse he
ordered them all into exile out of
Ireland but
they ignored his decree and only left the perimeters of
Leinster Province and went
instead into the west of the Munster Province to
Scoriath the
King of the Fer Morca Sept who gave them sanctuary.
Scoriath had a daughter,
Moriath, of whom he had
rejected many proposals for
marriage from the young Princes of Munster and because of this her mother and father constantly watched over her,
but with the assistance of 62.Labraidh's harper,
Craftine, they were able to
meet and fall in love and they were eventually betrothed and married.
Scoriath then gave him an army to
get back his rightful kingdom in the Leinster Province
from 60.Coffey his great - uncle, and he marched to
Leinster
where he was joined by his own Leinster followers and was able to retake the fortress at
Dinn Righ but 60.Coffey
on hearing of this marched from
Tara at
once into Leinster
with a great army.
62.Labhraidh
withdrew from the region and
disbanded his followers and sent his new wife under
Craftine’s protection back
into
Munster to her father. With only
9 men he went
to Albion
/
Briton then on to
France were
he served the King of that country and became a chief commander
and advised the
King there of his previous difficulty and he too gave him an army to return to
Erinn / Ireland to claim his rightful position.
560 BC - 300 BC
The Celts in Europe whose language was
Indo
- European were to reach the pinnacle of their culture
during this period.
541 BC
60.Coffey / Cobthach the
Heremonian 69th King of
Tara / Ireland
had ruled for 50 years
and this year his grand - nephew,
62.Labhraidh
“Loingsech / Lynch / sea mariner - the Exile - returned to Ireland arriving back
into the mouth of the river in
Co. Wexford
in the south - east
of Southern
Leinster where the men of
Leinster
and
Munster
Provinces
soon joined in with him. They marched on
Dinn Righ were 60.Coffey was holding an Assembly and was not
aware of 62.Labraidh's return or that he had
acquired 30
Irish
Chiefs to ally with him and 700 men. They then set the fort there on fire and
all within were burnt to death, and this action was later known in
Irish History as "The Slaughter
of Dinn Righ"
/ Argain Dinn Righ, which was a destruction / toghail - of a fort.
From
60.Coffey descend the Heremonian
Families now known as
Coffey in the Connacht
Province,
the
Dal
Cuinn
Septs,
the
3 Colla
Septs,
the
3 Connachta
Septs,
the
Earna
and
Muscraige
Septs,
the
Dal Riada
Septs, the
Fortuatha
and
the
"Southern" and "Northern"
Ui Niaill
Septs.
62.Labhraidh "Loingsech" then became the
Heremonian
Ui Laoghaire 70th King of Tara
/ Erinn in his own right for 18 years and the direct ancestor of the
Heremonian
Ui Lughaidh Cu Corb Kings of
Leinster
and Ui Connla
Kings of Ossory & Leinster.
The
Wicklow
Mountains later on came to be the
main stronghold of the Fortuatha
region of the
Leinster
Tuaths who had their hill fort of Ailenn in the north on the Liffey
Plains of Co. Kildare in
Central Southern Leinster. Their expansion earlier on
into Southern Leinster
was to force the Fir Bolg Septs further
west during that period, and this saw the Fir Bolg
also construct many forts there against them. One of the surviving
Fir Bolg tribes in the
Leinster
region remained in the south to eventually create the basis for the
Heremonian
Ui Laoghaire Ui Connla aristocratic over - kingdom of
Ossory in Co.
Kilkenny
in the
south - west of
Southern
Leinster. Their territory there was to always be between a rock and a hard
place as they were squeezed between both the
Heremonian
Ui Laoghaire Cu Corb Septs in
Southern Leinster
and the Heberian
Septs in the
Munster Province in
Mogha's Half.
After the destruction of Dinn Righ the
aristocratic warrior Heremonian
Ui Laoghaire descendants of
62.Labhraidh "Loingsech"
eventually became the direct descendants of
86.Cu
"Corb" the direct
ancestor of the Kings of Leinster, and in turn his descendants were to set up a confederacy over - kingdom in what is now
Southern Leinster,
which is named for the Laigin / Lin Celts.
86.Cu "Corb" would leave
4
sons who would continue on the aristocratic warrior
Heremonian
Ui Laoghaire
Cu Corb male line in
Southern Leinster and of these
4 sons only
2 would then push the male line further
on from there,
87.Mess
“Corb,“ the Messin Corb
Sept and
especially
87.Nia "Corb“
the Dal Niad Cuirp
Sept who would
then continue it on
through his son, 88.Corbmac "Gelta Gaeth," and his son
89.Felim
/ Feidlimid "Fer Aurglas."
In turn it would then
be up to
his 2 sons, 90.Maine
“Mal,“
the Ui Mail Sept and especially
90.Cahir
/ Cathair “Mor“ the
109th King of Tara / Ireland who would in time divide Leinster up
between his own 10 sons but despite this only
1
of these sons would then continue to carry their male line forward namely, 91.Fiachu
“Ba hAiccid" - the Lame who was also his youngest son. He was to be the father of
92.Bressal “Belach“ who was to become the
Heremonian
Ui Laoghaire
Ui Lughaidh Cu Corb 1st King of
Leinster whose own 2 sons were to create
two
separate predominant aristocratic Cu Corb Leinster
Tuaths / Family regions. One would evolve as the
Ui Cheinnselaig
/ O Kinsellagh Sept descending from
one of his sons,
91.Labraidh
“Laidech“ through his son,
92.Enda
/ Enna “Cennsalach“ who would be the
Heremonian
Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh
Cu Corb
2nd King of
Leinster. The other would evolve as the
Ui Dunlainge
/ O Dowling
Sept from his other son,
91.Enna “Nia” through his son,
92.Dowling
/ Dunlaing
who was also a Leinster
Prince, and these two
dynasties would be the only one’s who would continue to share the
Heremonian
Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh
Cu Corb
Leinster Kingship in
the future.
Emanating then from
86.Cu "Corb" and his descendant,
92.Bressal
"Belach" the 1st King of
Leinster, in
Southern Leinster, was to be
two related aristocratic warrior Septs from the
Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig
Sept and the
Cu Corb
Ui Dunlainge Sept, and their influence was to
spread further south there into the River Barrow region. Their territory there
also came to be land locked, just like all of the
Celts would be, and was to be centred on the River Liffey, the River Barrow and
the River Slaney basins, where they were to be cut off from the
Midlands / Mide / Northern
Leinster by the bogs of
Co. Offaly in the north
- west of Southern
Leinster. They were also surrounded by the forest to the north of the
River Liffey, from Munster Province,
and the uplands of the territory then controlled by the
Fir Bolg Sept
in the kingdom of
Ossory west of
Barrow with
Arklow, Dublin, Wexford and
Wicklow on the eastern seacoast.
Southern Leinster
came to be divided by the watershed (Gabhair)
between the Rivers Liffey and the River Slaney, Glendalough and Kildare in the
north, known as
Laigin Tuath Gabhair,
and Leighlin and Ferns in the south, known as
Laigin Des Gabhair. During the 12th Century AD the
Irian Loigis
/ Laeghis
Sept who were not of the
Heremonian
Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh
Cu Corb
male
line, but under their over - lordship, were to be never the less
dependent on the Heremonian
Ui Laoghaire U Lughaidh Cu Corb
Southern
Leinster
dynasties. In time they would become incorporated into Leighlin, due to
the over - lordship of one of the Ui Cheinnselaig
Septs, emanating from 92.Enda
/ Enna
“Cennsalach“ the Cu
Corb
2nd King of Leinster. The
Irian Loigis King there was sometimes
referred to as the King of the Double Laigin.
(Naas in Co. Kildare
to the west of the Wicklow Hills was
to be the ancient residence of the
Cu Corb
Kings of
Leinster,
which was to be named for their ancestor,
80.Nuadhas
“Neacht”
the
Heremonian
Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh
96th
King of Tara / Ireland,
the grandson of
78.Lewy
/ Lughaidh their direct ancestor, who was one of
the 2 sons of
77.Breasal "Breach.")
530 BC
A voyage was recorded this year by those from
Marsillia who sailed down the east coast through
the Pillars of Hercules and along the seaboard
to the city of Tartessos,
which had been trading with the Greeks since 638 BC and they also traded as far
as the Brittany
Peninsula who in turn traded with
Ierne /
Ireland and Albion
/ Briton. The names of
Ierne and Albion
were formed from Greek names and the Irish
term of
Eriu
and
Eire formed from
Ierne
while Albion
was also known to the Irish
as Albu.
The term
Galatae was to come into use
after the Hallstatt Culture had diminished and the Celts who had just created
the La Tene Culture were moving outward.
522 BC
There were to be 30 Heremonian
Kings
to rule over Tara / Erinn, including
62.Labhraidh "Loingseach"
down to 88.Cahir
/ Cathair
"Mor" who was to die in 166 AD.
+On to 500 BC - 400 BC
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