Irial died in the second year after this battle, having reigned 10 years, and was buried at Magh Muagh.ģ9. He won four remarkable battles over his enemies:-Ard Inmath, at Teabtha, where Stirne, the son of Dubh, son of Fomhar, was slain the second battle was at Teanmhuighe, against the Fomhoraice, where Eichtghe, their leader, was slain the third was the battle of Loch Muighe, where Lugrot, the son of Moghfeibhis, was slain and the fourth was the battle of Cuill Martho, where the four sons of Heber were defeated.
He likewise built seven royal palaces, viz., Rath Ciombaoith, Rath Coincheada, Rath Mothuig, Rath Buirioch, Rath Luachat, Rath Croicne, and Rath Boachoill. This was a very iearned King could foretell things to come and caused much of the country to be cleared of the ancient forests. Irial Faidh ("faidh": Irish, a prophet): his son was the 10th Monarch of Ireland d. 1683, and was succeeded by three of his four sons, named Muimne, Luigne, and Laighean, who reigned jointly for three years, and were slain by their Heberian successors.ģ8. 1698, Heremon reigned singly for fourteen years during which time a certain colony called by the Irish Cruithneaigh, in English "Cruthneans" or Picts, arrived in Ireland and requested Heremon to assign them a part of the country to settle in, which he refused but, giving them as wives the widows of the Tuatha-de-Danans, slain in battle, he sent them with a strong party of his own forces to conquer the country then called "Alba," but now Scotland conditionally, that they and their posterity should be tributary to the Monarchs of Ireland. He and his eldest brother Heber were, jointly, the first Milesian Monarchs of Ireland they began to reign, A.M. "The House of Heremon," writes O'Callaghan, "from the number of its princes, or great families-from the multitude of its distinguished characters, as laymen or churchmen-and from the extensive territories acquired by those belonging to it, at home and abroad, or in Alba as well as in Ireland-was regarded as by far the most illustrious: so much so, according to the best native authority, that it would be as reasonable to affirm that one pound is equal in value to one hundred pounds, as it would be to compare any other line with that of Heremon."ģ7. 81) Art Eanfhear, Monarch of Ireland in the second century, who was the ancestor of O'h-Airt, anglicised O'Hart. THE Stem of the Irish Nation from Heremon down to (No. From him were descended the Kings, Nobility, and Gentry of the Kingdoms of Connaught, Dalriada, Leinster, Meath, Orgiall, Ossory of Scotland, since the fifth century of Ulster, since the fourth century and of England, from the reign of King Henry II., down to the present time. 50), but the third of the three sons who left any issue. HEREMON was the seventh son of Milesius of Spain (who is No.
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