[caption id="attachment_1450" align="aligncenter" width="449" caption="Gold Ore Picture"][/caption] Above: Gold ore Tighearnmas, whose refiner was Uchadan, was the first to discover a gold mine in Ireland. The gold was smelted at Fotharta, east of Lithfe, and was so plentiful in the district that the people of Leinster got the name of " Laighnigh an Oir." Gold was also found at Killaloe, Derry, Tyrone, Antrim. Muineamhon was the first king to decree that collars of gold were to be worn round the necks of the nobles in ... Read More

Eanna Airgthioch who succeeded to the throne was the first to have silver shields made, at Airgeadros, and bestowed mi the men of Ireland. The succeeding reigns present little of note except that in the third, that of Fiachaidh Fionn-Scothach, wine flowers were pressed into goblets. Which brings us to Muineamhon, the first king to decree that collars of gold be worn round their necks by the nobles of Ireland. He died of the plague at Magh Aidne and was succeeded by ... Read More