Above: The Legends of the Early Colonies

Resides some fables about the landing of the lady Ccasair [Kasserj and her people forty days before the flood, our manuscripts have legends of five ancient colonies. The Parthalonians: the first colony, 2520 BC. The first man that led a colony to Ireland after the flood was a chief named Parthalon, who came hither from Greece, with his wife, his three sons, and 1,000 followers. He took up his abode first on the little island of Inish-Samer in the river Erne just below the waterfall of Assaroe at Ballyshannon; and afterwards on Moy-Elta, the level district between Dublin and Ben Edar or Howth. At the end of 300 years the people of this colony were destroyed by a plague, which carried off 9,000 of them in one week on Moy-Elta.