600 BC - 522 BC 

600 BC - 331 AD During this period the Celtic Gaelic Milesian Irian Navan Fort of Eamhain Macha in Co. Armagh in the south - east of the Ulster Province was to be in existence until the coming of the Gaelic Milesian Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Dal Cuinn 3 Colla brothers who would establish the beginnings of the Orghialla / Oriel kingdom there in Ulster and adjoining Co. Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster.

600 BC Celtiberians were recorded at this time who were not necessarily Celtic speaking on the Iberian Peninsula and in Ierne / Ireland and Albion / Briton and they were to continue 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 peoples 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 had spread widely to the south and the west from Catalonia, and later groups entered the Peninsula from the western end of the Pyrenees setting up along the Atlantic coast. These western peoples were to be 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 aristocratic warrior society did all come together under people 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 then existed.          

      The Cimmerians and the Scythians lived on the Steppe Lands of Eastern Europe, and a group of people were brought together through over - lordship of a warlike aristocratic warrior people known now as the Keltoi, and when that warlike warrior tribe suffered reverses that particular Nation fell apart and new groups and names then took in the many splintered groups. The Scythians were to be responsible for the collapse of the Cimmerian suzerainty who became the eastern neighbours of the Hallstatt Culture province in the late 6th Century and 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 Scythian Pretani / Picts were to become a significant name in Albion / Briton by the time of Pytheas and there was no indication that any great 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 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.)

594 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, had ruled for 40 years. He was to be 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 / Midhe / Co. Meath in the south - east of Northern Leinster by his own brother, *59.Badhbhchadh.

594 BC. Riaghan ?

594 BC. 1 day. *59 Badhbhchadh / Bancadh proclaimed himself the Celtic Heremonian 67th King of Tara / Ireland who was also a son of 58.Eochaidh Buadhach, but he was to only survive in this position for 3 hours as *59.Ugaine's son, *60.Leary / Laoghaire Lorc - the Murderer quickly disposed of him for killing his father. (Prior to his demise *59.Ugaine Mor had received a promise from all of his subjects that they would never contend for the Kingship of Erinn against any of his descendants). 60.Roighne another of his sons, was to be the author of many of the original laws collected and included in the Irish Brehon Law.) Despite the great number of sons he had produced, only 2 of these were to leave any important aristocratic warrior issue; 

 594 - 592 BC. *60.Leary / Laoghaire Lorc became the Celtic 68th King of Tara / Erinn, who is the direct male line ancestor of the aristocratic warrior Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh Cu Corb Kings of Leinster, and the Ui Laoghaire Ui Connla Kings of Ossory in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster who were to also produce 1 King of Leinster.

 592 - 542 BC. *60.Coffey / Cobhthach Caol Breagh - the Slender of Brega, his brother, who was the King of Brega in the Midlands / Midhe / Co. Meath in the south - east of Northern Leinster, envied his brother’s higher position, and to achieve this wanted him dead, and actually made himself sick thinking about it. While recovering *60.Leary Lorc came to visit him at Carman in Co. Wexford in the south - east of Southern Leinster, and just as he bent over to embrace him *60.Coffey plunged a dagger deep into his heart. *60.Coffey then also poisoned *60.Leary's son, 61.Ailill / Oilioll Aine who had previously succeeded his father as the King of Leinster to remove any chance of him ever gaining the Kingship of Tara / Erinn. As fate would have it, 61.Ailill’s infant son, *62.Maen Ollamh had also previously 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, which was an ancient royal residence founded originally by the Fir Bolg Septs there on the River Barrow near Leighlin / Leith Ghlinn in Co. Carlow in Southern Leinster. (*62.Maen Ollamh was then under the care of his minders, who were the two teachers, Ferceirtine and Craftine). Later on when he was older he was to have an altercation with some one, and he actually spoke again, and he was then to be known as *62.Labhraidh (He speaks.)

      *60.Coffey / Cobthach who was now the Celtic 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 Ollamh aka *62.Labraidh, and ordered him and his two teachers to attend the Ard Feis / Assembly in Co. Meath, where the Kings of Ireland held the 6 day Festival of Samhain every year, and where every 3rd year a Legal Assembly was to meet there. During the feast *60.Coffey asked, "Who was the most generous man at Tara," and the two teachers named *62.Labraidh / *62.Maen Ollamh, and and in a fury, and using this as an excuse he ordered them all into exile out of Ireland. They ignored his decree and only left the perimeters of the 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, and who had a daughter, Moriath, of whom he had already rejected many proposals for marriage from the young Princes / Tanaistes of Munster. 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 were eventually betrothed and married. Scoriath then gave him a force of his Gaelic aristocratic warriors to try and regain his rightful kingdom in the Leinster Province from *60.Coffey his great - uncle. Together with his followers he returned to Leinster where he was joined by his own Leinster aristocratic warriors and was able to retake the fortress at Dinn Righ, but *60.Coffey on hearing of this marched down from Tara at once into Leinster with a great force of his own. *62.Labhraidh withdrew from Leinster and disbanded his followers, and sent Moriath under Craftine’s protection back into Munster to her father. With only 9 of his aristocratic warriors he went over to Albion / Briton and then from there made his way to France were he served the King of that Country, where he became a chief commander, and after he advised the King there of his previous difficulty with his great - uncle, he too gave him a force of his warriors to return to Erinn / Ireland to claim his rightful position.  

560 BC - 300 BC During this period the Celts in Europe whose language was Indo - European were to reach the pinnacle of their culture.

551 BC. Cinaeth ?

542 BC *60.Coffey / Cobthach the Heremonian 69th King of Tara / Ireland had by now ruled for 50 years, and this year his grand - nephew, now known as *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 the Munster Provinces soon joined in with him. They marched onto the fort of Dinn Righ were *60.Coffey was holding an Assembly and was not yet aware of *62.Labraidh's return or that he had since acquired 30 Irish Chieftains 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 the total destruction / toghail of a fort. From this *60.Coffey Caol Breagh descend the  Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Septs / Family branches now known as Coffey in the Connacht Province, the Ui Felim Dal Cuinn Septs, the 3 Colla Dal Cuinn Septs, the Dal Cuinn Ui Maine Septs, the Dal Cuinn 3 Connachta Septs, and the southern and northern Dal Cuinn Ui Niaill Septs, the Heremonian Ui Conaire Earna and Muscraige Septs and their kinsmen, the Dal Riada Septs, and the Ui Felim Deisi and Fotharta Septs in Southern Leinster.

 542 - 523 BC. *62.Labhraidh Loingsech - the Mariner then became the Celtic Heremonian Ui Laoghaire 70th King of Tara / Erinn in his own right for 18 years and also the direct male line ancestor of the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh Cu Corb Kings of Leinster and the Ui Laoghaire Ui Connla Kings of Ossory and Leinster. The Wicklow Mountains later on also came to be the main stronghold of the Fortuatha region of the Southern Leinster Tuaths / Family regions who originally 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 there further to the west during that period, and this saw the Fir Bolg also construct many forts there against them. One of these surviving Fir Bolg tribes in the Leinster region remained in the south - west to eventually create the basis for the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Connla aristocratic over - kingdom of Ossory in Co. Kilkenny. Their territory there was to always be between a rock and a hard place, as they were to be squeezed between their kinsmen, 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 male line descendants of 78.Lewy / Lughaidh (Ui Lughaidh) and his descendant 86.Cu Corb the direct male line ancestor of the Cu Corb Kings of Leinster. (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 in turn would leave 4 sons who would continue on the aristocratic warrior Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh Cu Corb direct male line in Southern Leinster, and of these 4 sons only 2 would then push the direct male line further on from there, 87.Mess Corb was to produce the Messin Corb Sept, and 87.Nia Corb the Dal Niad Cuirp Sept who would then continue it on through his son, 88.Corbmac Gelta Gaeth, and then his son 89.Felim / Feidlimid Fer Aurglas. In turn it would then be up to his 2 sons, 90.Maine Mal, the ancestor of the Ui Mail Sept, and especially his brother, *90.Cahir / Cathair Mor- the Greater who was to become the 109th King of Tara / Ireland who would in time divide Leinster up between his own 9 sons who were to leave issue. Despite this only 1 of these sons would then continue to carry their aristocratic warrior male line forward namely, 91.Fiachu Ba hAiccid - the Lame who was to be injured in battle and who was also his youngest son. He was to become the father of 92.Bressal Belach the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh Cu Corb 1st King of Leinster whose own 2 sons were to create a further 2 separate dominant aristocratic warrior Cu Corb Leinster Tuaths / Family regions.

      One of these Cu Corb Septs would evolve from one of his sons, 91.Labraidh Laidech through his son, 92.Enda / Enna Cennsalach who would become the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh Cu Corb 2nd King of Leinster and the direct male line ancestor of the Ui Cheinnselaig / Kinsellagh / Kinsella Sept. The other Cu Corb Sept would evolve  from his other son, 91.Enna Nia through his son, 92.Dowling / Dunlaing who was also a Leinster Prince / Tanaiste who would become the direct male line ancestor of the Ui Dunlainge / O Dowling Sept who would produce many of the Kings of Leinster.

      These 2 future Cu Corb dynasties would be the only Septs who would continue to share the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh Cu Corb aristocratic warrior Leinster Kingships in the future descending from 86.Cu Corb and his descendant, 92.Bressal Belach the 1st King of Leinster. The influence of these 2 aristocratic warrior Septs from the Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig Sept and the Cu Corb Ui Dunlainge Sept,  was to spread further south in Southern Leinster into the River Barrow region. Their territory there also came to be land locked, just like all of the Irish Celtic territories would be, and was to be centred on the River Liffey, the River Barrow and the River Slaney basins, where they were then to be cut off from the Midlands / Midhe / 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 the Munster Province in the south - west, 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 situated 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 then as Laigin Tuath Gabhair, and Leighlin and Ferns in the south also known then as Laigin Des Gabhair. During the 12th Century AD the Irian Ui Loigis / Ui Laeghis Sept who were actually an Irian Sept and not of the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh Cu Corb male line, but still under their over - lordship, were to be never the less dependent on the Heremonian Cu Corb Southern Leinster dynasties. In time they would also become incorporated into Leighlin, due to the over - lordship of the Cu Corb Sept, emanating from 92.Enda / Enna Cennsalach the 2nd King of Leinster. (Ui Cheinnselaig). (The Irian Ui 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 another of their ancestors, *80.Nuadhas Neacht who would become the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh 96th King of Tara / Ireland, who was to be a grandson of 78.Lewy / Lughaidh their particular direct male line ancestor, who to be was one of the 2 sons of 77.Breasal Breach, who is the actual common ancestor of  the Ui Cheinnselaig, the Ui Dunlainge and the Ui Connla Septs in Leinster.

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, who 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 Briton 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 because of the influence of their trading with the Greeks and Etruscans, were moving outward.

524 BC. Flann Da Congal ?

523 - 506 BC.*61.Meig Molbhthach became the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh 71st King of Tara / Erinn who was a son of *60.Cobthach Caol Bhreagh the previous 69th King of Erinn.

522 BC There were to be 30 Celtic Gaelic Milesian Heremonian Kings of Tara / Erinn, including *62.Labhraidh Loingseach down to *90.Cahir / Cathair Mor the 109th King of Tara / Erinn who was to die in 166 AD.

506 BC - 499 BC. *67.Mogh Corb became the Heberian 72nd King of Tara / Erinn, who was a son of  66.Cobhthaigh Caomh the son of *65.Reacht / Reachtaidh Righ Dearg - the Red King became the previous 65th King of Erinn

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