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Eibhear and his division of the fleet

Eibhear and his divided fleet succeeded in landing again at Inbhear Sceine, called after Sceine wife of the poet Aimheirgin, who was drowned there.    Tradition, rightly or wrongly, still points out the place at Cuas na Fuirinne and Cuas na gCraobh on the bleak promontory south of Derry-nane.    Three days later they encountered Eire,  at  [...]

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Partolan, first man who stepped on Ireland

Partolan, who was the first to " occupy " Ireland, came three hundred years after the Deluge.    His course was from "Middle Greece" through the Torrian or Mediterranean Sea to Sisilia, and thence, with his right hand to Spain, till he reached Inbhear Sceine in West Munster after a voyage lasting two months and a [...]

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